'War president' Bush has always been soft on terror

'War president' Bush has always been soft on terror
His campaign says vote Republican or die - but he lets al-Qaida off the hook
Craig Unger
Saturday September 11, 2004
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1302097,00.html
Where's George Orwell when we need him? Because we Americans need him. We desperately need him. Consider: in August 2001, immediately after reading a memo entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike in US", President George Bush went bass fishing - and never called a meeting to discuss the issue.

A month later, on September 11, when he was told that the terrorists had attacked, Bush spent the next seven minutes reading a children's book, The Pet Goat, with a group of schoolchildren. .....