You said — So, according to your logic, President Bush purposely sabotaged his own presidency by not revealing this information?
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Well, I never said he sabotaged his own presidency, you did.
What I said is that he didn’t tell what he knew, as it was classified, and he agreed that we didn’t find any WMD (which we didn’t, did we... LOL..., at least President Bush said we didn’t).
Now, he knows, our government knows, and others know that they’re in Syria, and others have given out this information already, but the public doesn’t “believe” them.
We wouldn’t go into Syria and actually pick them up and “show the world”, so to reveal it would require revealing our assets. The U.S. isn’t going to do that, because those assets are still “in play” in the region and the U.S. wants to keep it that way.
It’s just like the nuclear facility that was destroyed in Syria that no one is talking about, although we all know that it happened and it was destroyed. :-)
Israel and the U.S. isn’t going to talk about it, and “show the world” and reveal all that they know just to reveal their assets to the world.
That’s the way it works...
So what was President Bush's motive for keeping quiet about this? The material you are citing is all open source so security classification is a moot point.