Condi's 9/11 Speech: Damning or Helping?

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Wednesday March 31, 2004 · 11:47 PM PST

2004/03/31 · 23:47

First, Sorry Kos, I know this is my 3rd Blog of the day. But I noticed this had been up for a while and no one seemed to be talking about it.

Please excuse me for this one.

Drudge is reporting tonight that the Wash Post will report on the speech that Condi was supposed to give on 9/11. At first thought, I said, "HOW FRICKEN CONVENIENT?"

But it's more muddled than that:

http://www.drudgereport.com/rc6.htm

The speech, postponed in the chaos of the day, part of which Rice spent in a bunker, mentioned terrorism, but did so in the context used in other Bush administration speeches in early 2001: as one of the dangers from rogue nations, such as Iraq, that might use weapons of terror, rather than from the cells of extremists now considered the main security threat to the United States.

The text also implicitly challenged Clinton administration policy, saying it did not do enough about the real threat, long-range missiles.

Condi: "We need to worry about the suitcase bomb, the car bomb and the vial of sarin released in the subway. (But) why put deadbolt locks on your doors and stock up on cans of mace and then decide to leave your windows open?"

Hmmm, the real threat is long range missles? I guess they couldn't have been further off the mark.

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