Blame 9/11 on airlines, Congress, Bush

The title of Father Andrew Greeley's column in The Chicago SunTimes. He comes out swinging,

The fifth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack is coming up soon. It should be a time of national disgrace and shame. It never should have happened.

Link to the Sun Times article is here:http://www.suntimes.com/...

In the article he lays out in very simple terms the blame for 9-11 on the airline lobbyists, a corrupt inneffectual congress and an administration not concerned about terrorism.

The airline presidents and lobbyists responsible for the defeat of the steel doors ought not to be able to sleep at night because of this deadly betrayal of their passengers. Similarly should the media, which did not denounce the greed of the airlines at the time nor even after the Sept. 11 attack. If the terrorists had known that they could not have gained access to the flight decks, they probably would not have tried to execute their plot. If they had, it would not have worked.

I am not usally a fan of Father Andrew Greeley's columns, but today's column is a great read, even with all the editorials out there today, this still stands up & stands out, and 3 out of the last 4 columns are changing my opinion of the man.  
Father Greeley's Blog is here: http://www.agreeley.com/
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Big Lie on Iraq comes full circle  http://www.agreeley.com/...

It is nice to see newspapers starting to do what they should have been doing all along.  I can't but help to wonder if doesn't have something to do with falling readership levels?, or has the criticism started because of frustration? I won't look this gift horse in the mouth, just yet.

Again the Link to the Sun Times article is here:
http://www.suntimes.com/...

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