It seems the Dems and the MSM wanted real-time finding of huge stockpiles of WMD's. I can see the Bush administration wanting to keep secret the 1.77 tons of *enriched* uranium from the media or the Dems. It would be a major security issue to secure and remove that material. Don't want any leaks that could get to the insurgents about this stuff (not that the MSM or Dems would make such a leak /sarc).
"It seems the Dems and the MSM wanted real-time finding of huge stockpiles of WMD's."
Right, to them absence of that is evidence of total failure.
As for the "right time" mentioned by a previos poster, I would offer that this time in '07 would do quite nicely to lay it all out point by point by point. The dems will not stand a chance if they try to pull a "kerry".