RNC 2012: Condoleezza Rice delivers speech to Republican National Convention in Tampa full text – The Washington Post

We gather here at a time of significance and challenge.   This young century has been a difficult one.  I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center — and then a second one — and a third, the Pentagon.  And then the news of a fourth, driven into the ground by brave citizens that died so that many others would live.  From that day on our sense of vulnerability and our understanding of security would be altered forever.

via RNC 2012: Condoleezza Rice delivers speech to Republican National Convention in Tampa full text – The Washington Post.

 

Except, for all the warnings… Bin Laden Determined to Strike and all that.