REVEALED: THE CONDI SPEECH THAT WAS NEVER DELIVERED ON SEPT 11

Drudge Report ^ | March 31, 2004

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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED MARCH 31, 2004 21:00:02 ET XXXXX

REVEALED: THE CONDI SPEECH THAT WAS NEVER DELIVERED ON SEPT 11

The WASHINGTON POST on Thursday is planning an exclusive: On Sept. 11, 2001, national security adviser Condoleezza 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"

The POST is planning to excerpt some of the speech, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

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?"

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[Ramius]

So?

[expatpat]

I don't trust the Compost. What's the betting that it serves the Demo'rat's interests?

[Dog]

How did the Post gets its hands on a speech that was never given........who leaked this.

[jackbill]

Let me guess. Dana Priest - who gives new meaning to the term "Media Whore", or Dana Milbank, the Skull and Bones wimpy Clymer.

[scarface367]

Why does this even matter?

[BigSkyFreeper]

The liberal media is already starting to trickle all that it has on Condi Rice, ahead of her moment at the 9/11 Commission hearing.

[Dog]

The left/media wants to destroy Condi Rice....she is a threat to Hillary in '08..

[oceanview]

she needs to play the race card.

[The G Man]

And????

Geez, are they reaching or what!?

[what's up]

Significance...the Bush administration had not been ignoring terror as has been declared.

[scarface367]

I hope she says her version of Clarence Thomas's "High-tech lynching" speech

[FreeReign]

The left/media wants to destroy Condi Rice....she is a threat to Hillary in '08..

Yes, Hillary has destroyed all of the '08 "D" competition. Now, she's working on the '08 R's.

She's so thorough, that way.

[FreeReign]

The left/media wants to destroy Condi Rice....she is a threat to Hillary in '08..

Yes, Hillary has destroyed all of the '08 "D" competition. Now, she's working on the '08 R's.

She's so thorough, that way.

[Hildy]

Why is this a bad thing? This means they were thinking ALOT about terrorism. How arrogant are we that we think we could have stopped this. Spain couldn't stop that train bombing and that was with the world on high alert.

[mcg1969]

Agreed. I see this as a positive not a negative. It's proof that the Bush administration wasn't planning sitting on its hands doing the same old crap the Clinton administration was. Too little too late, of course---but hindsight is 20/20, isn't it.

[Finalapproach29er]

Drudge is a bigger whore than her. He put the graphic dead soldier picture on his front page, where it earlier used to have a warning and you had to click to go to a second page to see it.

I guess nobody was clicking to see it so he stuck it on the front page. Drudge is a disgraceful human being.

[optik_b]

It is pathetic for conservatives to call for the race card to be played. I heard a liberal black columnist for USA Today on CNN today saying that it was a racist conspiracy to go after Condoleeza Rice and not after Rumsfeld and others. I would expect this kind of race politics from the left but now I see some who call themselves conservatives doing the same.

[Nataku X]

I don't get this. Why is this news damaging to Condi Rice? Goes to show that Bush wasn't asleep at the switch, so why is the compost leaking it?