WASHINGTON (CNN) — National security adviser Condoleeza Rice planned to deliver a speech on September 11, 2001, about national security that said nothing about Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda or Islamic fundamentalist groups.

A description and excerpts of that undelivered speech were first reported in The Washington Post on Thursday, and the excerpts were confirmed by administration sources.

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[September 10, 2001. The Office of the National Security Advisor. Condoleeza Rice paces energetically near the window as her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley looks over the upcoming speech.]

RICE: C’mon, c’mon…

HADLEY: Almost done… Okay.

RICE: It’s good, right? A concise summation of the threats looming over our great yadda yadda.

HADLEY: Yeah. I’m not so sure about this “Top Five” list, though.

RICE: What?

HADLEY: Well, how are Alaskan caribou a threat to national security?

RICE: Oh come on, I specifically say that it’s only the caribou who live in that wildlife refuge.

HADLEY: Even still…

RICE: Look, the caribou keep us from the oil, the lack of oil keeps us dependent on foreign sources, which gives Saddam leverage. Simple as a pimple. Get it?

HADLEY: I’m just not sure tha-

RICE: God dammit!

[Rice grabs a paperweight and throws it into a bookshelf.]

HADLEY: Okay, okay. I was just saying.

RICE: Well, stop saying. The caribou thing stays. Non-negotiable.

[The intercom crackles.]

ASSISTANT: Dr. Rice, Richard Clarke is on the line.

RICE [into intercom]: I’m not here.

ASSISTANT: He says it’s import-

RICE [into intercom]: I’m not fucking here!!

[She lifts the intercom and bangs it repeatedly on the desktop, reducing it to an unrecognizable pile of plastic and wires.]

[Pause.]

HADLEY: I wonder what he wants.

RICE: Oh please. [in a low, droning voice:] “Uhhh, significant risk. Watch out for the El Kabong network. Beware… beWARE…”

HADLEY: Hee hee.

RICE: “The nomads are coming! The nomads are coming!”

HADLEY: Hee hee. That’s dead on.

RICE: “We’ve learned from the FBI that the CIA thinks that the NSA’s analysis of the blah blah blah…”

HADLEY: Heh. It’s funny ‘cuz it’s true…

RICE: Okay, so are we good here?

HADLEY: I think so. I like the stuff about Iraq and Iran. “Twin towers of evil.” That’s a great phrase.

RICE: Thanks.

HADLEY: But are you sure you want to imply that without missile defense we’re vulnerable to “space-based attacks from Iraq.”

RICE: Aren’t we? North Korea too.

HADLEY: Well, it’s not like we have any evidence that the Iraqis even have a -

RICE: Godammit, Steve! Motherfuck!

[She lifts a chair and smashes it against a wall, splintering it into small pieces. She then hefts an ornamental antique globe of the world and heaves it at a window, shattering the glass. She looms over Hadley, panting.]

HADLEY: Hey, it’s okay by me. It stays.

RICE: Good. Anything else?

HADLEY: Just one more thing. You say on page four, um, “We cannot allow complacency to blind us to the very real threat posed by the Soviets…”

RICE: Yes. What? That’s good.

HADLEY: “The Soviets…”

RICE: Oh! My bad. Must’ve been a typo.

HADLEY: Yeah, I thought so.

RICE: Make that “terrorists and rogue states.”

HADLEY: Nice.

RICE: Are we done? I’ve got a squash appointment, a meeting, and an oboe lesson. And then dinner with the Vice President.

HADLEY: Wow!

RICE: Well, ya gotta keep busy.

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