'Al-Qaida' didn't rush to Bush's lips

What a GREAT column by Marie Cocco...

"...Rice isn't president of the United States. George W. Bush is. And so we must read his lips.
Here is what those lips said publicly about al-Qaida between Jan. 1, 2001, just before Bush was sworn in as president, and Sept. 10, 2001: Nothing.
There were zero references to al-Qaida during these months. That's according to Federal News Service, which transcribes every presidential utterance - speeches, news conferences, impromptu musings at photo ops, off-the-cuff remarks made striding toward a helicopter, official comments with foreign dignitaries. The search was conducted including the phrase "al Q" - to capture every possible spelling or translation for al-Qaida. Still nothing.
During the spring and summer, Bush repeatedly pushed the missile-defense system - still not successfully tested - as the antidote to terror. He brought it up in conversations with Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar in Madrid; with Russian journalists on the eve of Bush's first meeting with Vladimir Putin and with Putin himself; with NATO leaders in Brussels and at the World Bank in Washington."

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc303729094mar30,0,6418173,print.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

administration was asleep at the wheel on 9/11? AQ terrorism was "0" priority for this administration. Invading Iraq and taking the oil was priority #1 because that fit with their personal financial/political agenda. The secret energy policy meetings will show this clearly.

Guilty of dereliction of duty.

"During the spring and summer, Bush repeatedly pushed the missile-defense system - still not successfully tested - as the antidote to terror".

Exactly how would a missile defense system deter or thwart terrorism?