In his speech earlier, President Bush highlighted our successes in the war on terror, from the bbc

...at least 10 attempted attacks by al-Queda had been foiled since 9/11, three of them in the US.

then it gets a bit confusing:

I thought it important to mark the anniversary of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound.  As Senator Cantwell's amendment to remove drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge from the budget saw a 51-49 defeat, and Gov. Frank Murkowski's recent appearance on 'Real Time with Bill Maher' in which he refuted the idea that alternative energy is realistic, it seems that some have forgotten the price of our oil addiction.