"The big question is why the Bush Administration isn`t talking about this. Can`t understand?"
Why?
Because it's just another hoax, that's why.
"The big question is why the Bush Administration isn`t talking about this. Can`t understand?"
I think its because they have been beat to death about no WMDs found in Iraq and are happy to let others put it out there for now, rather then looking desperate and saying told you so, told you so, and then with no hard evidence the liberal MSM would slam them pretty hard. If all this post-war intelligence proves that the pre-war intelligence was right, it will be obvious to all.
There is supposed to be much much more captured material to go through still.
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Could it be just a question of proper timing/election timing?
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George W. Bush is known as a great poker player
Here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1070924/posts
The American Thinker February 3, 2004 | Thomas Lifson
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One final note on George W. Bush’s management style and his Harvard Business School background does not derive from the classroom, per se. One feature of life there is that a subculture of poker players exists. Poker is a natural fit with the inclinations, talents, and skills of many future entrepreneurs. A close reading of the odds, combined with the ability to out-psych the opposition, leads to capital accumulation in many fields, aside from the poker table.
By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, at least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.
I think the reason the adminstration is not talking about it is that it wants to be absloutely sure. Why open your mouth prematurely?
"The big question is why the Bush Administration isn`t talking about this. Can`t understand?"
Is it possible that the admin. wants to keep this info (embarrassing to Russia) secret for now, as a "bargaining chip" in the upcoming Security Council talks on anti-Iran sanctions? Without Russia on board, the last chances for a non-military solution to the Iran crisis will go down the drain. If Russia opposes sanctions, then US could
threaten to officially go public with the WMD info. I would be skeptical of any diplomatic solution. IMHO it's a waste of time, but that seems to be the administration's focus for now (at least until the 2006 elections, after which a strike on Iran would be more likely).