[snarks_when_bored]

I am sitting here stunned. This is not an easy article to read, but it is a fantastic article and explains what for me has always been unexplainable. Why the president does not more clearly lay out the facts about the Iraq/AQ connections.

A good question. This administration sometimes seems to take the 'never complain, never explain' adage a bit too far.

[litehaus]

"This administration sometimes seems to take the 'never complain, never explain' adage a bit too far."

And also, even tho evidence sometimes abounds, fail to PROSECUTE!

[sirchtruth]

A good question. This administration sometimes seems to take the 'never complain, never explain' adage a bit too far.

So they take it too far, and yet win MORE elections? Doesn't Bush always make you think he knows something the rest of us don't? Those on the left, in their infatile stupidity, call Bush a liar because WMD didn't show up in "Stockpiles." (The Left's whole argument) The Left thinks the rest of the country cares about this when every other nation said the same thing about WMD Bush said! All Bush does is keep his mouth shut and lets the LEFT hang themselves with their idiocy because he understands that this country understands what and who we're fighting. Wholey Moley the dems and the left are part of the culture enemy to this country by striking at every institution we hold dear!

Bush doesn't have to explain Jack to the left! They can all go pound sand.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Why the president does not more clearly lay out the facts about the Iraq/AQ connections.

This administration sometimes seems to take the 'never complain, never explain' adage a bit too far.

As Mr. Hitchens opines above

I do in fact know the answer to this question. So deep and bitter is the split within official Washington, most especially between the Defense Department and the CIA, that any claim made by the former has been undermined by leaks from the latter. (The latter being those who maintained, with a combination of dogmatism and cowardice not seen since Lincoln had to fire General McClellan, that Saddam Hussein was both a "secular" actor and--this is the really rich bit--a rational and calculating one.)

My opinion is that the CIA is still full of Clinton plants who are working against rather than for us. I cite Valarie Plame and her non CIA husband Joe Wilson as only the surface, as well as the phony 911 Commision's cover up. The enemy within is well embeded. Let's hope the new Homeland Security and CIA directors can flush them out.