[Amelia]

I agree with you that the mistake was a minor one. ;-)

Exactly. Very minor.

That was why I took issue with the article here:

If Bush can truly claim to know absolutely nothing, then don't we have a serious problem - wouldn't that imply that Bush is either incompetent or is simply not paying attention?

For discussion purposes - has Bush been conned by Tenet? And if he has, isn't that rather serious?

And if he wasn't conned by Tenet, what is the alternative?

The answers to the above questions are really very simple: we don't have a problem, serious or otherwise, with regards to the President's competency or credibility.

We do have a public relations problem, caused by the press making a mountain out of a molehill, and the situation is exacerbated by articles like this which seem to imply that the President included false information in the SOTU address and that the administration is either incompetent or dishonest.

[Scenic Sounds]

The answers to the above questions are really very simple

That's why in my posts I tried to address those questions. You know me, if they'd been complicated questions, I would have been completely stumped. LOL

We do have a public relations problem,

I agree - that's why the inclusion of those 16 words was, in retrospect, a mistake.

I trust the American people to judge the facts fairly. The American people are not as stupid as a lot of folks seem to imply.