The problem is why hasn't the administration made this case???
The administration has done very little to defend itself.
The one true mistake of the war: the attitude that the truth will get out.
Way past time for the US and Iraq to launch a PR war.
Because it will get egg on their face for not trying to stop them instead of waiting around to build a coalition.
And we saw the results on November 7th.
They needed to do this early in the war if they were going to.
Good question. I suspect they were "taking the high road", "staying above the fray", etc., at first, but when they saw how non-answers produced a vaccuum that the MSM was more than happy to fill with virulent anti-Bush-anti-American rhetoric, why did they continue to be silent?
The problem is why hasn't the administration made this case???
The administration has done very little to defend itself.
Good question....we wouldn't be in this mess re elections etc if the WH would make their case re the WOT IMHO
I've been saying this for years. Now that Rick Santorum is looking for work, put him out there every day, on every show confronting the lies and making the case.
"The problem is why hasn't the administration made this case???"
Maybe Dubya has been listening to too much advice from Bush 41, James Baker, and Colin Powell.
Months back when Rick Santorum pushed to have that one WMD report released, he was on Sean Hannity's radio show to talk about it
Hannity kept asking him that question you asked .. Rick at first was side stepping the question .. they he said that he couldn't get into it
But he also commented that the President felt is was better to let himself take the hits from the media then to put our troops in harms way
The administration has done nothing to defend itself. President Bush has been ill-served through the years. IMHO
Maybe because it will make a fantastic thing to crow about all doing 2007!
This administration is a Public Relations DISASTER.
How many of us could have been creative in making the case:
For invasion without WMD?
That WMD WERE found everywhere, including sarin-tipped missiles, mustard gas, etc?
That Saddam attempted to hide military assets in the vast deserts of Iraq, including entire MIG fighter jets, etc?
That WMD were moved to Syria with Russia's fingerprints all over?
That collateral deaths of Iraqi civilians were the direct consequence of harboring terrorists, and if you don't want to die by American bomb, you don't associate with terrorists.
That the United Nations is corrupt from the head down, and has no moral authority to intervene in America's defense.
That Hans Blix and co. are Socialists on a mission, whose credibilty needed to be destroyed.
That the NYTimes needed to be prosecuted for treason.
That the Geneva Convention guided rules of warfare for signatories ONLY, and that since terrorists did not abide by it, America would NOT unilaterally adhere to it.
That detainees in Gitmo would not be given Korans by unclean Americans wearing gloves (WTF??????).
That documents found (think jveritas) implicated Saddam conclusively in much of the above?
Instead, the RINO administration was cowardly, inconsistent and incoherent.
The White House rolled over, installed a buffoon as spokesman, made nice with Pootie-Poot, backslapped Kennedy et. al. and advanced a Socialist domestic agenda, invited Clinton into the family and gave him a platform to rebuilld his legacy in the eyes of the world, chastized Israel for defending itself against terrorism, fought a politically-correct limited war in Iraq instead of employing overwhelming force with extreme prejudice, left the borders wide open to the south, tried to sell softie Harriet Myers as a Supreme, and otherwise FUBAR.
And people wonder why WE lost the election?
This administration did not lead, so no one followed.