Wayne Allard: “The report from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States will be coming out today. There has…”

“The report from the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States will be coming out today. There has been some dribbling out of information about what that report might contain, but we are not going to know for sure the full content of that report until we get a briefing. I am excited that a good portion of the report is going to be released to the public. I am always of the belief that we need to have an open dialog about issues and where there are shortcomings so that we can come up with the answers and solutions that will serve us best. I do not think any one group of people or even one individual has all the answers. So I think the more dialog we can get as a result of this report, the better. But I do think it serves us well to think about where we are today, and how it is we got to where we are. The President came into office about 3 rac{1}{2} years ago. He was elected in 2000. He had not even been in office a full year when all of a sudden we had 9/11. What has emerged is that we have a serious problem with terrorism. Historically, if we look back through the 1990s, we see that there was an emerging problem, which many of us did not recognize as serious as it turned out to be, and most of us did not realize that a series of events would eventually culminate into 9/11 and eventually a finishing off of the war with Iraq. There was a pattern, in looking back.…”