[MadIvan]

I sense "strategery" is going to triumph again shortly.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

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[rintense]

On Hannity last Friday, Tony Snow said he also was told of the 'smoking gun' and that it is close to being released. He wasn't told, of course, what the smoking gun was- only that there is one.

[jbstrick]

Ivan,

I tend to agree.

[denydenydeny]

I'm not even going to say the word, but you know what I'm thinking.

[Slick]

Everybody who has doubted that this was the case, that Bush was about to go wobbly, has not been paying attention the past two years. Bush makes a decision to accomplish something and then relentlessly pursues it to its resolution.

In this case, he settled on regime change in Iraq. Once that decision was made, I was never in doubt that that is exactly what he would do. When he went to the United Nations and got a resolution which, politically, he had to know would require a powerful argument to invade, I assumed that he had a powerful argument in hand.

In other words, I think you can take this administration at its word. The only exception I can see is the current mess of the Education bill. Even the steel tariffs were pretty much reversed.

[EternalVigilance]

It's been pretty obvious all along that the Administration possessed ample proof.

Smart politicians, politicians who are smart enough to rise to the Presidency of the US, don't proceed with the kind of confidence Bush has without an ace as a hole card.

[doug from upland]

Our dumb frat boy mentally deficient president has once again seemed to outfox the RATS. How could that possibly happen? He is playing them like a violin.

[WOSG]

hmmmm, if they had it in October, they could have released it then

OR IS IT THE NEWS ABOUT THE AL QUAEDA IN IRAQ ThAT HAS POPPED UP IN THE NEWS???? This is big stuff, but is getting hardly any play in the press. basically escaped taliban/al quaeda are now in northern iraq. ... and where they possess chemical weapons. That seems to me to be the 'missing link' needing to tie terrorists, WMD, and Saddam into one package.

[Restorer]

If you look at the last 18 months or so, Bush has outmanuevered his far more intelligent opponents consistently.

If you are baited into constantly claiming that we can't go to war without real evidence, then when it is produced you have a very tough time finding another rationale for opposition.

[Argus]

That smoking gun will be in the hand of a Special Forces soldier or Marine standing over Saddam's still warm, but very dead corpse.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This is good. And at this point, the Bush and Blair don't have much of a choice. The U.N. is obviously more than happy to slow-roll us. We're going to wind up posting our evidence to the world, then going to war while the U.N. sits on their hands.

What's even more ludicrous is that they'll immediately curse us for going to war, in direct contrast to their being tight-lipped about obvious Iraqi violations (like Iraq "forgetting" to report 17,000 artillery shells loaded with nerve gas and shooting at our aircraft every damn day).

[GraniteStateConservative]

Something happens on January 28th.

What could it be? Hmmmm... I think it's an address to the nation in front of Congress, and broadcast to the world. If I wanted to make Tom Daschle sh!t his pants, that's when I'd lay down the hammer.

Why do something big when you can do it BIG.

[clintonh8r]

Our man W is becoming something of an expert on playing the timing game...

[Cosmo]

indeed1 -- Stategery reminiscent of that used in a certain near- catastrophe sometime back in the sixties involving some fabled island country where virgins roll cigars on their thighs and everyone gets a chance to pick sugar cane....
Schweet!

[js1138]

So why don't we simply tell Hans Blitzed to look over there in that corner. We don't have to tell him how we know what we know. But we might mention that if he doesn't look, we will.

[Sabertooth]

Senator Kit Bond of Missouri said more information should be released and asked: "What is the connection between Iraq and al-Qa'eda?"

U.N. allowed Iraqi purchase of agent usable for weapons
			Posted by kattracks On 11/06/2002 0:10 AM PST with 12 comments Washington Times ^ | 11/06/02 | Bill Gertz The United Nations overruled U.S. government objections and allowed Iraq to buy a specialty chemical that U.S. intelligence officials say will boost Baghdad's chemical and biological warfare agents. Top Stories • GOP regains control of Senate• Democrats can't avenge 2000 result• Vote watchers get wish but not results• Sharon dissolves parliament      A large quantity of a chemical known as colloidal silicon dioxide was ordered by the Iraqis in August 2001 and held up by the U.S. government because of concerns about its use.     However, the United Nations approved the sale and it was shipped to Iraq last month, said Hasmik Egin, a U.N. spokeswoman.     Colloidal silicon dioxide...
Anthrax, One Year Later
			Posted by Allan On 01/01/2003 2:46 PM PST with 42 comments The Washington Post ^ | 01-01-03 | Editorial SINCE THE DEADLY anthrax mailings more than a year ago, the government's public focus has shifted from the crime to measures necessary to combat bioterrorism and make such attacks more difficult in the future. .... This record is all the more disturbing because more than a year after the anthrax was let loose through the mail, U.S. authorities have made no arrests. In all, said Niro's Lancos, "you would need [a] chemist who is familiar with colloidal [fumed] silica, and a material science person to put it all together, and then some mechanical engineers to make this work . . . probably some containment people, if you don't want to kill anybody. You need half a dozen, I think, really smart people."

Colloidal Silicon Dioxide

[quesera]

I for one have no doubt that the information is there, and the least sensitive of it will be released at a time of W's choosing.

I do think that once this info is released, then the bombs start dropping probably in a matter of days.

Never doubt the resolve of this President!

[Paradox]

I too heard Tony Snow speak about this on the Shawn Hannity radio program. He seemed to indicate that exposing the "smoking gun" would in fact result in the death of the source of this information, so its a touchy situation.

[Calpublican]

I sense "strategery" is going to triumph again shortly

Glad you Brits are finally learning to speak properly.

Now, here's a good sentence: If you folks had used a little more strategery, we might still be British subjects.