Oh No! Barbara Boxer heads terrorism subcommittee!

Barbara Boxer ^ | September 12, 2001 | Barbara Boxer: transcript of her remarks on floor of senate

[SFmom]

Senator Barbara Boxer

Transcript of Floor Statement on the Terrorist Attack Against the United States

September 12, 2001 I want to thank my dear friend, Senator Biden, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, for this opportunity and for his eloquence and vigilance on this topic. And I am proud to be on his Committee and proud to chair the Subcommittee on Terrorism.

Madame President, today I rise with pain in my heart and great emotion to offer my prayers and my condolences for the people who have been directly hit in this country by an act of war. People of my state of my birth, New York; the people who work at the Pentagon everyday, who have chosen to work to protect our nation; the people of California who were on those planes that were hijacked; and of course, to every other individual who was directly affected from every state. And all of us will have our stories.

I want to first thank the people of California for their outpouring of love and support for the people of this country.

There were vigils and prayer services in every denomination yesterday. There was an outpouring of people giving blood. The Los Angeles County Search and Rescue Team somehow got a plane at four in the morning. They went on that plane and they are now on the ground in Manhattan.

For indeed, we are one country east to west, north to south. I have never seen such unity.

One of our colleagues said we remember where we were when tragedy hit this country. And in my lifetime I remember too many things. Not as many things perhaps as Senators who are older, but I certainly remember where I was when I saw John Kennedy go down and Martin Luther King go down, and the Challenger disaster, and yesterday the image of four commercial American planes going down, crashing into buildings, being used as lethal weapons against our people. It is an image that has shaken us, but it has not shaken our resolve.

Madam President, once I was on a plane that was in some type of mechanical trouble and we had to make an unscheduled landing. And for an hour, we really didn't know if we were going to make it. And in that time, passengers were consoling each other and getting out their fears and flight attendants were reading the crash landing manuals. And I reached for the phone and I called my family and I left a message and I thought: did I tell them when I last saw them how much they mean to me?

And all I could think of yesterday were people on these planes, everyone of whom has a family. Basically as I understand it, knowing that they were going to go down. And in many cases, as I understand it, being told if you want to call your families, you are crashing.

The utter terror. The utter callousness of this. The inhumanity of this. It is unbearable what our people went through on those planes and those innocent people working in the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.

This is a very strong statement I am going to make—when we look back in history at what happened in Bosnia where people suffered genocide because of their nationality—and to the Holocaust where people suffered annihilation because of their nationality.

People got killed yesterday because they are Americans. Not because they were bad people. They were good people. They got killed because they were Americans. And it is time for us to say we will fight and stand up for them and their memories. We will take a stand against man's inhumanity to man that occurred right on our own soil.

And we are resolved—we are resolved to honor those who died. We are resolved to make our nation safer, as safe as it can be from these acts. We are resolved to hold those who plan these attacks, who harbor these people absolutely a hundred percent accountable. We will hold them accountable. They must pay because this is the test of a civilized nation. And we lead the civilized nations of the world, and we will not back down.

And I stand proudly with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and with this President. And we will be resolved to do all these things and to do them well and to do them right and to bring justice to the world. Thank you.

[SFmom]

OMIGOD!!! BARBARA BOXER is the CHAIR of the subcommittee on terrorism? We are in big time trouble!This info was just sent to all her constituents in a mass email.

[TigerLikesRooster]

I am pretty sure that she is more interested in passing draconian security laws than going after perpetrators. Domestic oppression is more important for her. Terrorism is the convenient excuse.

[eureka!]

Well said. She really is. Amazing what $$ and the media can do...

[breakem]

What is the majority leader saying here? We might as well roll over and expose a jugular if this subcommittee has any real responsibility.

[river rat]

This country is at WAR!
REMOVE this stupid bitch from any position that has critical relationship to the defense of the Nation.
Send her to NY to service Clinton, again.
The marxist Bitch!
Semper Fi

[Hail Caesar]

Maybe she'll propose the "Terrorism and Knife Safety Responsibility Act of 2001" in order to make our children and communities feel safe from assault knives and other similar weapons of mass destruction. /sarcasm off

[patlaw_guy]

Is she the chair? Or did somebody just bring her one to stand on so she can see eye-to-eye with a short person?

[svcw]

Here, here. Boxer is a scab on the butt of California.

[GLDNGUN]

Boxer makes our other Cal senator, Feinstein, look like John Birch conservative. How in the world she's in charge of this committee, I can't fathom. God help us.

[RightOnline]

Akin to Gary Condit (remember him?) heading a subcommittee on Missing / Abused Women.

[linn37]

wait.....this could work the terrorists are frightened of sqealing pigs!

[RightOnline]

One question: Did she drool while spewing her drivel? Usually does.

Woman's a perfect poster child for after-the-fact abortion.

[TigersEye]

That's what we need. A commie half-wit chasing 'terrorists'.

[Jefferson Adams]

Good Lord.

[b4its2late]

Quick, send her the Websters definition of terrorism.....

[CommiesOut]

pingo

[swampfox98]

That pissant Jeffords. I could whap his hiney. His defection has brought us this idiot Boxer.

[MHGinTN]

Barbara catBox will seek legislation to require all foreign nationals coming into the US to promise on their honor not to do things bad while here, then give them free access to whatever they need to feel at home. She will exploit the terrorist mode to seek passage of severe restrictions on OUR freedoms, as her solution to our safety ... take away all means to defend ourselves and our communities from any suspected threats, placing the people under the protective wing of the central authority. This woman is as dangerous as a determined suicide terrorist!

[CommiesOut]

Thursday September 13
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites)'s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (news - web sites) won approval Thursday from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee despite concerns about his prior service as American envoy to Honduras.

The committee voted 14-3 to send the nomination of John Negroponte to the full Senate

Voting against the nomination were Democrats Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Barbara Boxer of California.

They did not question Negroponte's qualifications and said they would not try to block the nomination, particularly with the pressing need for the post to be filled after Tuesday's attacks against the United States.

The previous U.S. ambassador, Richard Holbrooke, stepped down in January.

[truthkeeper]

OMG...HOW did this commie dumb*** (who is my senator - ack) get to chair a committee?? We are in real trouble.

[SUSSA]

Aside from being dumb as a rock, this bimbo has no respect for the Constitution and absolutely hates the Bill of Rights. She will do all she can to gut the Bill of Rights.

[Terriergal]

It *Sounds* good but I will believe it when I see it.

doubting Thomas Terriergal

[Fred]

Boxer....

" It is time for a formal apology to the misunderstood terrorists and there poorly represented leader Bin Laden, my fellow Americans, if these young men did not have such a bad childhood, they would not have committed these crimes"... I am going to recommend a suspended sentence and counseling for these poor young men..."

[debg]

I'm not worried. Sounds like a grand title for an administative/secretary function for organization/coordination of data to me. I imagine there's lots of folks we don't like or agree with that will rally to or be appointed to these times.

[Paulie]

"... I am going to recommend a suspended sentence and counseling for these poor young men..."

Don't forget the reparations...

[Paulie]

"... I am going to recommend a suspended sentence and counseling for these poor young men..."

Don't forget the reparations...

[Pontiac]

We are resolved to make our nation safer, as safe as it can be from these acts. We are resolved to hold those who plan these attacks, who harbor these people absolutely a hundred percent accountable. We will hold them accountable. They must pay because this is the test of a civilized nation. And we lead the civilized nations of the world, and we will not back down.

The only way to make the US and the world safe from terrorist is to find these terrorist and kill them and their families in the dead of night. To do so with out pity or remorse. To do so in the most horribly brutal fashion as to strike unreasoning fear in to the hearts of those who would follow their example.

This is the language that these people understand. This is the currency of these people’s minds. These are the methods which will restore our country’s and the worlds safety. Lesser methods such as banning email encryption an phone tapping are temporary stopgap measures which last only as long as it takes the terrorist to find a way around the measure (which is not long).

Only the fear of a strong and ruthless retaliation will stop these people.

[SpinyNorman]

Yeah, she's a terror all right.

[CommiesOut]

Yoo Hooo! We're baack!

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea (L) meet with Bernardette Healy, head of the Red Cross in the United States and Rob Bender (R) head of the Red Cross in New York September 13, 2001 at a center for families with missing persons after the World Trade Center collapse. Rescue operations continue at The World Trade Center collapse site after an attack on the structure. REUTERS/Miguel Juárez Lugo REUTERS

[FlyVet]

Say this isn't so. Deja vu, she was the first one I thought of on a yesterday thread, I can see her receiving top secret information, going home and blabbing it to all her friends on the phone. How can they put someone so clueless in this position???? She wouldn't know the meaning of national security if it hit her upside the head....a perfect appointment for getting good soldiers killed.

[white rose]

Well, with Boxer heading the terrorism subcommittee and Gary Condit still on duty over at Intelligence, I think we can all rest easy, what?

[Carry_Okie]

Don't ask me to caption that.

[Uncle Bill]

So Bill Clinton fires every U.S. Attorney. Then, Webster Hubbell and Sheila Anthony(Vince Foster's sister) hire some corrupted new ones. Barbara Boxer, whose daughter married Hillary Rodham Clinton's younger brother at the White House in 1994 says, yeah, Robert Mueller should get the FBI job. Hahahahahahahaha. Traitor Barbara Boxer will now chair the Subcommittee on Terrorism. When does Janet Reno and Tenet get together for lunch and discuss CIA maps for bombing targets? Does Webb Hubbell and John Huang hold hands with Hillary to channel with Eleanor Roosevelt to form a committee with Mochtar Riady and Jackson Stephens for tactical expertise? Might need their help. Have you looked at a map of Afghanistan? Look at the countries that surround the terrorist scum. Maybe China will allow us to land our aircraft at their military facilities. We might need Kissinger and Haig for that approval. Is Mary Jo White in charge of the save the children campaign. Maybe Jesse Jackson can blackmail Osama bin Laden. What are Laden's hiring practices and does he manufacture Toyotas. Powell can be in charge of the Afghanistan highway of death. Cheney can call Brown and Root for cleanup. George can direct us towards the thousands points of light in the bombing campaign when we pulverize the terrorist scum to dust. Buy a laser pointer for Lawrence Eagleburger. He can talk about collateral damage. He's got some collateral now.

[CommiesOut]

G-d forbid! You don't want to be banned twice, do you? Save your comments for this one: Where are you, Mr Bush?

[TERMINATTOR]

No doubt, Barbarian Boxer is one of the most dangerous terrorists around.

Luke 22:36 (KJV) --Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Got sword? (M1 Garand)

No mercy, no quarter!
May the jihadists burn in hell for eternity!
Help speed them on their way!

Molon Labe!

[rockfish59]

she just wants to 'atone' for all the fetuses she's terrorized! good 'ol 'babs boxershorts'! the commies keep rolling.

[cgbg]

The Barbara Boxer "War on Terrorism"

(1) Five group hugs required every day.

(2) Lots of funerals.

(3) Claim she is not afraid while she hides in the Senate basement with her head in her....

(4) Every speech includes the following words: "tragedy, sad, feel, families, children".

I am sure Bin Ladin is shaking in his boots at this "perfect terrorist victim".

[victim soul]

Does anybody have the text of Boxer's letter she sent out on her letterhead dated Sept 11?

[Lucky2]

God help us all! This commie will probably give us over to the Taliban as she doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!