Wasn't Bush's speech the other night solely about the War in Iraq? If it was about Afghanistan then I can see him bringing up 9/11 but to the best of my knowledge it wasn't.
I would imagine with elections coming up in a few months we can expect to see the Terror Alerts again. Very odd that no one mentions the "colors" anymore. Doesn't seem as if we've had an alert since right before the 2004 elections.