--If these tapes are real (and I believe they are) then why didn't the WH use them over the past 2 1/2 years to debunk the MSMs' and dems' attacks?--
Apparently the tapes were stored in a Baghdad warehouse for 2+ years and ignored, and have only been translated recently. The new info has likely been slogging through the usual bureucratic channels, and the WH may well be unaware. Many in the intelligence bureaucracy will soon have egg on their face (again) and would prefer that the tapes had never surfaced.
"Many in the intelligence bureaucracy will soon have egg on their face (again) and would prefer that the tapes had never surfaced."
You mean Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson?