Bush's Path to 9/11: How Bush Dismantled National Anti-Terrorism...

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...Protections, Without Replacements, Part 1, Jerry Politex

'1. Rice's 9/11 Missle Defense Speech
"On September 11, 2001, national security adviser Condoleeza Rice was scheduled to outline a Bush administration policy that would address 'the threats and problems of today and the day after, not the world of yesterday.' --but the focus was largely on missle defense, not terrorism from Islamic radicals" (Washington Post, April 4, 2004).

Condoleeza Rice never gave the speech, of course, because on that day she was in a White House bunker, along with Dick Cheney, in the presence of Richard Clarke, the President's advisor on antiterrorism, who was serving as Crisis Manager in the Situation Room, directing the nation's actions in immediate response to the 9/11 destruction of New York City's World Trade Towers and a portion of the Pentagon.' http://www.bushwatch.net/bush.htm#part1