I would imagine there is a reason behind it. For instance, if the administration fears that we haven't found it all, it's better to take the hits and convince the terrorists it doesn't exist rather than have the whole place swarming with people attempting to find them before we do.
Perhaps once the Iraqis get strong enough to handle it, the whole truth will come out. In the meantime, there is horrendous damage being done to the presidency. The only thing that would motivate this president to take that damage (not just to himself, but to the very presidency) is the safety of the American people. He trusted the American people to keep things straight, but it looks like they have let him down.
Wrong - The American public have not let this CIC down, the reality is it reelected him based much because of his leadership on the GWOT (which most certainly includes Iraq, which is essential to the GWOT).
Don't allow a bunch of meaningless MSM fake polls to spin you - The reality is the one real poll was taken last November and GWB was reelected with more votes then any President in history...in one of the largest turnout elections in modern history (a fact the MSM and DEM's said was impossible for a Republican to win...a high turnout election).
The public is still fully behind the GWOT (when kept informed of our progress and when the WH and RNC step up and fight back from all the lies and spin put out by the MSM / DEM's)
Right on the money. The US military spiked the news story when the Polish army found a few liters of cyclosarin. Bush doesn't want terrorists finding this stuff and using it against our troops or Iraqi civilians. Bush is a supremely confident man. He knew he could still win in 2004 without announcing that we have found a lot of WMD.
I think it's also because whatever we find in Iraq, the MSM will spin it as an insignificant amount of WMD. This is because the MSM wants to discredit Bush and the US military. It's also because people in the MSM lack any scientific education and they do not understand the incredible lethality of WMD, which means Saddam didn't need warehouses full of WMD to launch a devastating terrorist attack on America. I don't want to get into the details, but just a few gallons of nerve agents would be enough for a horrific terror attack.
This is a tough deal all around. So far, it is damaging the presidency but I don't know what the better alternative is. Perhaps Bush has a grand plan to let the Iraqis discover some WMD in a "previously unknown location" at a later date.
"I would imagine there is a reason behind it. For instance, if the administration fears that we haven't found it all, it's better to take the hits and convince the terrorists it doesn't exist rather than have the whole place swarming with people attempting to find them before we do.
Perhaps once the Iraqis get strong enough to handle it, the whole truth will come out. In the meantime, there is horrendous damage being done to the presidency. The only thing that would motivate this president to take that damage (not just to himself, but to the very presidency) is the safety of the American people. He trusted the American people to keep things straight, but it looks like they have let him down."
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I am afraid you may well have hit upon the real reason, that there is such strong compelling reason, that he opted to take the hits, than to reveal them. For example, we have satellite photos of truck moving from Iraq to Syria and some intel that they contained WMD, we should be able to verify that, but nobody has, at least not in the open. What I just pointed out was out in some news stories, which died down.
President Bush has a very difficult job indeed, and people, in stead of trusting his judgment, are falling for the Dem lies. Of course it's not totally surprising, because the Dems have been hammering at this for almost three years.