A president cannot have information suppressed.
He can simply stand before a microphone and say it and say it and say it.
President Bush NEVER fought this.
You must understand....I was a radical GW Bush supporter, regularly accused of being a BushBot
President Bush never fought a LOT of things. One of his characteristics that I did NOT like. He had broad shoulders and let the BS roll off of him, but he didn’t fight to get his word out when he needed to do so IMHO.
I wouldn’t call that “suppressing” information. I think his desire to avoid getting dragged down into the “bug dust” hurt him at times, and this was one of those times. In fact, in this case, it hurt more than him - it hurt the country and was probably a major contributing factor to how we got stuck with the present administration.
Another reason I went over years ago on this site was that if Iraq wasn’t certified WMD-free then the UN could continue to hold sanctions over Iraq even though the regime was gone... and at the time Germany [with its former terrorist Joschka Fischer] and France and Russia and China too were more than willing to keep sanctions on if only to screw up reconstruction.
“President Bush NEVER fought this.”
No, he never did. In fact, he has said repeatedly, on the record, and even in his book on his Presidency, Decision Points, that we never found WMD’s in Iraq. I think his statements have been one of the major reasons that it is accepted that there were no WMD’s in Iraq.
Perhaps in his mind, he was expecting to find nuclear weapons, or sophisticated biological or chemical weapons, and what we did find just didn’t measure up.