[Steel Wolf]

The Administration is not going to release a report that illustrates their own impotence. There's no widespread support for an attack on Iran, and there's deep reservations about escalating tensions in the area. President Bush is on shaky ground as it is, and he knows it.

Admitting that Iran is pushing us around, while simultanenously not being able to do anything about it, is a lose/lose proposition.

[KantianBurke]

bingo. Let's not forget, we've been "catching and releasing' red handed Iranian terrorists for quite some time now. That policy and keeping this info on the DL isn't out of left field. We're out of options.

[El Gato]

The Administration is not going to release a report that illustrates their own impotence. There's no widespread support for an attack on Iran, and there's deep reservations about escalating tensions in the area. President Bush is on shaky ground as it is, and he knows it.

And if the case isn't ever put to the public, and the Congress I guess, there won't ever BE any widespread report.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And there are these comments from the world media...see link just above:

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Yet the reality is that while Ahmadinejad has been his own worst enemy, the US hawks are his best friends.

[Zack Nguyen]

U.S. offiicals charge Iran is supplying explosives used to make the roadside bombs causing 70 percent of the deaths of U.S. troops...

70%! That is unbelievable! If accurate it means that a significant portion of the total insurgency is Iranian in origin.

[Auntie Dem]

There's no widespread support for an attack on Iran...

Yes, we must not anger the demoncraps. We must wait for Iran to set off nukes in this country before we are allowed to take any action. And then, of course, that would be Bush's fault like everything else.

[Northern Alliance]

Admitting that Iran is pushing us around, while simultanenously not being able to do anything about it, is a lose/lose proposition.

I'm very much afraid you are exactly right.

I just watched a segment on O'Reilly talking about a Trojan horse operation run against us in Iraq that resulted in the kidnapping and murder of US troops. It involved 4 or 5 SUVs (later abandoned!), US weapons, US and Iraqi uniforms, fake Iraqi (maybe also US - not sure about that) ID. Obviously it took a lot of money, planning, preparation, training, and resources to put that together not to mention a secure location. Iran is the only power in the region that has the wherewithal to pull that off. Baker and the majority of the senate and congress want the US to talk to Iran rather than bomb them. The world is upside down.

[FreedomNeocon]

Well thats the thing, the plan with Iran isn't to invade.

Hell at this point it isn't to bomb them.

Its just to take the gloves TOTALLY off within Iraq. Including 'embassies' that are safehouses for terrorists, including 'diplomats', including local people (like Sadr and his guys), like the 250+ goons in Najef just the other day.

The information will be used to gain support for Iranian isolation which some Euros need convincing of. I'd think they are holding it because even the announcement has created a FLURRY of activity that is deemed productive some question weather it is worth 'showing our cards' when even the threat (with the hand to back it up) already exceeded our phase1 goal (get iraqi troops in and holding the positions while the support structure is away)