Did all that in just 8/9 months in office? Sorry, that's just ludicrous. Bill Clinton was in there a full 8yrs leading up to 9/11. All of the 9/11 attack plans were done on his watch.
Facts are not ludicrous.
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Xinhuanet) -- The White House had promoted missile defense, instead of combating terrorism, as the cornerstone of a new national security strategy before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
On Sept. 11, 2001, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was scheduled to deliver a speech outlining a Bush administration policy that would address the threats the United States faces. But the focus was largely on missile defense, not terrorism from Islamic radicals, the Post said.
The speech, which was never delivered because of the attacks, mentioned terrorism as one of the dangers from rouge nations such as Iraq rather than from the cells of extremists now considered the main security threat to the United States, the Post said. The text contained no mention of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or Islamic extremist groups.
The speech also implicitly challenged the Clinton administration's policy, saying it did not do enough about the real threat -- long-range missiles, according to excerpts of the speech provided to the Post.
The White House has declined to release the complete text of Rice's speech but did confirm the accuracy of the excerpts, the Post said. Former US officials provided a detailed summary of the speech, the newspaper said.
NewsMine.org - Bush focused on missile defense not terrorism before 911
