Still, the speech was more about money than dead Americans. At times, it sounded as if the nation had its wallet stolen instead of being bombed. Efforts to be compared to Winston Churchill were like a series of insults. It was as if Churchill had told the world that Britain would fight on the trading floors and bank vaults and portfolios.

Not once did the people who wrote the speech have Bush mention that this was the greatest security lapse in the nation's history. Blame the airlines and insurance companies who for years bribed senators in Washington to keep regulations off, while they hired security people from outside companies, and at McDonald's pay. Those security people at your airline get $5.15 an hour with no medical coverage or vacation. Then you wonder how foreign murderers can get on planes. Now, more than 6,500 dead and missing later, they are going to put the security where it should be, under the federal government.
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