Imagine the thrill the Leftist-Democrats must have experienced when they realized that Bush was not going to fight back, about anything.
The Bush rope-a-dope strategy was the downfall of his administration, but more than that, it demoralized conservatives around the country.
What would it have hurt for him to argue that they did find WMDs sufficient to cause huge tragedy if in the hands of a terrorist. That they found recipes for WMDs. That they found precursors that even today are sealed off as dangerous, meaning that they were 10 years less old back then, so even MORE dangerous.
I was a Bushbot, but that was the dumbest strategy I’ve ever witnessed by a guy that I supported most of the time.