Here's my retrospective breakdown of Bush's 9/11 speech:

September 11, 2001 8:30 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts.
I thought it was the government and some big buildings that came under attack. Can someone explain how your "way of life" and "freedom" came under attack? Rhetoric of the most transparent kind.
The victims were in airplanes, or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers; moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror.
True.

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger.
Again, true.
These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.
Huh? Retreat? From where? Or What? Are we supposed to guess? Or was there some sort of "war" going on before 9/11 that he didn't mention? Sorry, I'm really confused.
But they have failed; our country is strong.
Well yeah. Was, is and always will be unless some schmuck messes it up.

A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
In other words, terrorists can't really threaten America very much. They can chip away but no great harm will come to the nation as a whole. So why the massive constitutional changes and other enormous measures to counteract this minor threat - as he admitted on 9/11? Why does he now hark back every objectionable policy to 9/11 when he said that al Qaeda can't dent America?

America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.
Yeah, no other reason in the world. It's just because America's ace, isn't it. Jeez.
And no one will keep that light from shining.
So in other words terrorists can't really threaten America very much...

Today, our nation saw evil, the very worst of human nature.
And the very worst in scramble jet response times!
And we responded with the best of America -- with the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could.
But not the best by way of reacting to the hijackings immediately and instead not getting a single jet up to any of the FOUR jets in time. Still, you weren't to know that quite so soon after the event.

Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans.
What's that? Immediately? OK. So you immediately got the emergency response plans in action and then sat in front of some school kids for 20 minutes even after the second plane hit? My god, you're the man. Whoa!
Our military is powerful, and it's prepared.
Should have been prepared before, though, shouldn't it.
Our emergency teams are working in New York City and Washington, D.C. to help with local rescue efforts.

Our first priority is to get help to those who have been injured, and to take every precaution to protect our citizens at home and around the world from further attacks.
And hide Dick Cheney until god knows when.

The functions of our government continue without interruption. Federal agencies in Washington which had to be evacuated today are reopening for essential personnel tonight, and will be open for business tomorrow. Our financial institutions remain strong, and the American economy will be open for business, as well.

The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.
Yeah, well that's a lie because otherwise Saudi Arabia would have been invaded first. And making no distinction of that nature is surely disregarding the non-negotiable Geneva Convention. Still, that little convention never seemed to concern him...

I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have joined me in strongly condemning these attacks. And on behalf of the American people, I thank the many world leaders who have called to offer their condolences and assistance.

America and our friends and allies join with all those who want peace and security in the world, and we stand together to win the war against terrorism.
Oh here we go. The first mention of a "war" against terror. Within hours he's devised this little idea that terrorism is not criminal (because it's non-governmental) but an act of war. The first little clue as to how misguided his whole future policies will be. Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."
Comforted? How? Oh, they have to be Christians. I get it.

This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace.
Guantanamo Bay, amongst many other terrible acts, kinda lets you down on the justice front, though, doesn't it.
America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time.
But America has also lost a certain war that has striking similarities to the two you have now waged
None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.
Defend freedom? It's that old crappy rhetoric again, isn't it.

Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.
Why America in particular? Can God not just, y'know, bless all mankind equally? I think I saw that somewhere in the constitution...Anyway...

There you go. Sometimes you just have to get certain things out of your system.