The Bush Administration gets a straight F for PR.
They should have implemented full censorship on all war-related news and kicked out ALL those smelly journazists out of the war zone. And why the HELL is the President giving an Interview to CBS!? He should know they will be using him for their propaganda! It's the same level of naivity as Richard Perle and co. giving interviews to Vanity Fair, only to find out they were fooled for more liberal propganda.
I agree 1000% with everything you said. Had a Bill Clinton attacked Iraq he would have hailed it as a great victory and would have had no problem explaining the lack of large caches of WMDs. He would have said the WMDs were there, they found them and the rest were buried in the sand. The media would have moved on to midnight basketball or something.