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In recent congressional testimony, new information emerged about Saddam's "Blessed July" program, which was described by Foreign Affairs magazine as "a regime-directed wave of 'martyrdom' operations against targets in the West." Apparently the Pentagon has been well aware of this evidence of Saddam Hussein's history of planning terrorist attacks against the United States and our allies. So why has the GOP and the Bush administration been silent on this? It's similar to an incident that happened in October 2004. CNS News reporter Scott Wheeler broke a world exclusive story on newly discovered Iraqi Intelligence Service documents that documented Iraq's possession of WMD's such as anthrax and mustard gas, as well as Iraq's collaboration with Islamic terrorist organizations including al-Qaida. What did the Bush administration do with this information? Nothing.

We can blame the Bush administration ... but where are WE on this? Where is the mainstream media? Where is Rush and othe r conservative media voices? Communication doesn't just happen from the White House, there are A LOT of information channels for this, if WE conservatives activated them.

Frankly, on this I cant blame the WH too much because the media is so hostile to them any attempt to showcase things like this is spun into "Bush admin., desperate to justify their failed Iraq war, made new outrageous allegations ... " etc. It's a no-win for them.

But if we carry the story forward independently, the word can get out there.

I don't disagree with you that we have a responsibility to get these stories out. But the problem here is that the mission in Iraq is a Bush policy. I support it. You support it. Melanie supports it. Shouldn't they advocate for their own policies? Shouldn't their representatives go on talk radio, Fox News, do interviews with conservative news websites on this?

Joel Mowbray wrote about this in National Review and was on Fox and he was very frustrated and flabbergasted that the WH wasn't out there telling this story.

It's the same feeling Marc Morano of CNS News had when he broke the first story of Iraqi Intelligence documents showing the premise for the war was true.

I remember Melanie Morgan told me that as disappointed as she was, she thought the Bush WH was just waiting for the election to then say "yes, there are these documents and it's true." But instead, they did the opposite and Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney all came out and said there were NO WMDs. We at MAF were all dumbstruck! They were right. There was evidence to back it up, and instead they hung all their supporters out to dry by saying 'No, the anti-war left was right, there was no WMD threat.'

Uggh. It makes it hard to get the MSM to even acknowledge the point when the Bush Administration says you're wrong and Saddam didn't have any meaningful WMD stockpiles.