Thanks for remembering my interest in this matter, My2Cents.
And I see we are all three of us in agreement. The WH did not defend itself at all against the "Bush lies" mantra and the WMD issues and it will forevermore remain a mystery why.
All it's done is embolden the Democrats to say the most outrageous and untrue things which in turn has delighted the jihadists.
I have a feeling we'll never know the answer to this. It's puzzling and maddening. And many days I wondered why I was bothering to defend a man against charges he wasn't himself defending against.
Dittos. It's exasperating, and, as I think we both know, it's dangerous, considering the kind of world we live in. When we're engaged in the biggest civilizational struggle for survival since the latter days of the Roman Empire, you can't afford to let the other side (which doesn't believe there's anything good about western civilization worth defending) win.