Bill Delahunt: “A point that you made earlier and you referenced the natural disaster, and I am thinking of Katrina. We are talking…”

“A point that you made earlier and you referenced the natural disaster, and I am thinking of Katrina. We are talking about whether America is safer today than we were prior to 9/11, and we all know and I am sure the American people that are listening to our conversation here tonight appreciate this, that those levees in New Orleans, they could have been sabotaged. They could have been victimized by a terrorist cell. It did not necessarily require a natural disaster. But here we are. We have spent billions and billions and billions of dollars on homeland security, and where are we? We are nowhere. But the American taxpayers are picking the bill up. As we discussed last week, not only are the American taxpayers spending money here and not effectively, not effectively, this has been an administration that spends the American taxpayers' dollars. But, by the way, we are also spending money to rebuild Iraq. But rather than, like every other major donor country in Iraq that loaned the money to the Iraqi government and said we will give you good terms but pay us back, this White House, in an act of unparalleled excess, in my judgment, made it a giveaway program: Welfare for Iraqis, but nothing for Americans. I mean, up is down and down is up. This is the Alice in Wonderland administration.”