Posted on 05/19/2002 5:28:19 PM PDT by Jen
Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney seemed unmoved by President Bush's insistence Friday that he did not ignore warning signs about the Sept. 11 attacks.
McKinney, who spoke as she tried to escape reporters in DeKalb County, said Congress should launch not one, but at least two investigations.
McKinney, who was widely criticized after insisting in March that Bush ignored warnings of an impending attack, said Friday that all she ever wanted was an investigation.
11Alive's Jon Shirek asked McKinney about critics who called her reprehensible for suggesting that President Bush might have allowed the attacks so his friends in the defense industries could profit from a war.
"Well, you know, I never said that, and it's very important that we understand, I called for an investigation," she responded.
On March 25, McKinney told listeners of KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Calif., that former President Bush might be making money from the defense industry during this war.
McKinney said, "Former President Bush sits on the board of the Carlyle Group. The Los Angeles Times reports that on a single day last month, Carlyle earned $237 billion selling shares...the army's fifth largest contractor."
McKinney asked Friday why Congress should not investigate the former president, his son, and the defense industries.
"And that's an investigation also that could take place along the lines of the Enron investigation," she said.
Denise Majette, a retired state judge seeking to unseat McKinney in Georgia's 4th District, said McKinney succeeds only at making inflammatory statements she can't back up to get attention and votes.
"Trying to divert attention from the real issues. The fact that she's been a totally ineffective legislator in the ten years that she's been in Congress," said Majette.
McKinney says only that she is gratified that so many others, including Majette, have joined her in calling for an investigation of what the president knew before the attacks.
Why Bush Is Innocent and the Democrats Are Guilty by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 20, 2002
IT FIGURES. The guilty ones are the first to point the finger. Now the same Democrats who for eight years slashed the military, crippled the CIA, blamed America for the enemies it made, opposed the projection of American power (missiles and smart bombs excepted) into terrorist regions like Afghanistan and Iraq, dismissed acts of war as individual misdeeds, rejected airport security on "racial profiling" grounds, defended a commander-in-chief who put his libido above the security of his citizens, and still oppose essential defense measures like holding suspects and imposing immigration controls these same obstructers and appeasers are now in full war cry against the President and are hoping to pin him with responsibility for the September 11 attack.
Not every Democrat is as kooky or anti-American as Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) who sits with Democratic connivance on the International Relations Committee and spent the week before 9-11 joining hands in South Africa with Iranians and other Islamo-fascists to condemn the United States, then came home to accuse Bush of plotting 9-11 so that his friends in the Carlyle Group could make war profits on defense contracts. But more mainstream Democrats -- the Leahys and the Boxers and other equally left and determined antagonists of American power -- are far more significant players in the debacle of 9/11. And no one is more singularly responsible for Americas vulnerability on that fateful day than the Democratic president, Bill Clinton, and his White House staff.
It is appropriate therefore that the crowning irony of the present Democrat attack is that it is the Clinton Administration not George Bush who knew of the plot to use airliners as bombs to blow up American buildings, that they knew it in 1995, that they did nothing about it, and that they kept this information from the Bush security team.
(Why Bush Is Innocent and the Democrats Are Guilty by David Horowitz )
Seems the psychos have all found each other.
ELECT MORE DEMONICRATS LIKE McKINNEY TO CONGRESS IN 2002!
VC - see #124. Can you make us one??? No rush.
1--Why does she keep getting re-elected?
2--Was she the person who donated a brain to the Scarecrow back in Oz?
MAKE THE USA/WORLD SAFER FOR al QAEDA TERRORISTS!
ELECT MORE DEMONICRATS LIKE McKINNEY TO CONGRESS IN 2002!
This will drive her and her black racist buddies ballistic. Freepers should not take their children to freep her if these signs are used:
MAKE THE USA/WORLD SAFER FOR al QAEDA TERRORISTS!
ELECT MORE DEMONICRATS LIKE McKINNEY TO CONGRESS IN 2002!
Sorry, AFvetgal, I don't recall anything like that.That one guy wanted to talk about Viet Nam and Olliver North. Loser.
Walt
I'm guessing her fellow Democrats.
As I've often said - It isn't the fact that there are people out there who "think" like McKinnney that scares me. It's the fact that there's an entire constituency that will vote her into office - *that's* what is scary.
We met a number of her constituents last Saturday, and generally, it wasn't pretty. Many of the ones who interacted with us were mean, nasty, class warfare-oriented, anti-white racists.
They need a cartoon of a guy voting no on a budget bill for the CIA, then the next frame, screaming at the press why nothing was done before 9-11.
Honestly, I can't tell the two apart.
Compton is an idiot. Like any good poker player, Bush doesn't telegraph his thoughts. She has no clue what he was thinking.
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