Here’s President Bush today:
We take — and we all should take threats seriously. That’s one of the lessons of September the 11th, is that what takes place in other parts of the world can come home to hurt the American people. See, a failed government in Afghanistan enabled plotters and planners to train and them come and kill 3,000 of our citizens. And so it used to be that’s it’s okay if something were happening from afar, oceans could protect us. I presume that’s how some in Canada used to feel. The lesson of September the 11th is, is that we’re vulnerable, and therefore, we’ve got to deal with each threat.
A lesson Bush learned from September the 11th: that the oceans don’t protect us from threats. Was he talking about nerve gas found in Iraq? An anthrax stash found in Afghanistan? No, he was talking about North Korea test launching a missile which could supposedly travel 5,000 miles.
Can we infer from Bush’s comment that on September 10, 2001, he wasn’t aware that a nuclear state with long-range missiles was a threat to America? Really, hasn’t he played the September the 11th card enough?