Robert P. Casey Jr.
Homeland Security
The war in Iraq is at the center of our national discussion today, but we cannot allow it to distract us from the objectives the American people set out to achieve in the fall of 2001: destroying Al Qaeda and denying legitimacy to the ideas of jihadist extremism. The war in Iraq has diverted our attention and resources from the broader war against Al Qaeda and its allies, which continues unabated five years following the horrific events of 9/11.
In addition to fighting terrorism abroad, we must also prepare for and defend against a terrorist attack here in the U.S. In the Senate, I have worked to allocate our homeland security funding on a risk-focused basis; increase rail and chemical plant security to avoid the prospect of terrorists transforming our chemical plants and hazardous material rail shipments into lethal chemical weapons; and to take steps to, once and for all, ensure that our first responders have reliable access to secure interoperable communications.
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