On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Justin wrote: > The intelligence, even if it was originally true, may have been leaked and > then the mobile (and other) weapons factories and storage destroyed. The > intended result would have been the current situation, with the Bush > administration and intel community looking like idiots and the "soft on > terror" Democrats having a foreign policy advantage in Nov 2004.
Has it not occurred to you that having Powell make the first statement may be designed to avoid having Bush make the [obvious and needed] statement? The truth is more likely along the lines of Bush demanded certain Intel be "found", and it was. Now that it cannot be substantiated, and is becoming a slow but growing thorn, making it go away as quietly as possible is the rule of the day. But it won't die quietly if Shrub makes the announcement: it has to be an underling. And lets face it - Powell is the *only* underling with *any* credibility. -- "One of the nice things about ignorance is that it is curable. Unlike Neo-Conservatism. Eric Michael Cordian
