So We Weren't Prepared for 9-11 Because We Were Preparing for the Bird Flu Pandemic?

That's what the headline of this WaPo piece by David S. Broder seems to imply: that we weren't ready for September 11th because Tommy Thompson and HHS was soooo busy gearing up to handle the bird flu epidemic (more appropriately, pandemic).

But that only works IF we're ready for the bird flu pandemic which, nearly five years later (and I don't recall ANYTHING about bird flu mentioned in 2001), we ARE NOT.

The bottom line is the Bushies always have an excuse for why they screwed up. And when an excuse is disproven, they NEVER admit the mistake. Instead, they just offer another excuse, like the 417 different reasons we went into Iraq.