Senator Pat Roberts' office has announced that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has made significant progress in completing analysis of postwar findings pertaining to Saddam Hussein's WMD programs and ties to terrorists.
"From our work, the American public will gain greater insight into – and an understanding of – the postwar findings about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs and the Hussein regime’s links to terrorism – and most important – how those findings compare with the assessments that were made leading up to war," Chairman Roberts said.
Regimeofterror.com will be posting analysis of the report when it is made available.
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I have wondered why the Bush administration will not be more forthcoming with this sort of information. It would be good for the administration, good for the GOP, good for the American people, good for those cooperating with us in this gwot (or more correct, war on radical Islam). I just don't understand their thinking. They are terrible at public relations.
I'm so glad that individual groups are sifting through this information and hopefully will make known to the public what they find.
West Point is doing a great job also.
Posted by: Debbie | August 5, 2006 8:55 AM
Posted on: August 5, 2006 08:55
Debbie,
I think the administration is likely aware of the polling that says 2/3 of Americans think there were strong links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda and feels that going through battles with the media on the issue can only be counterproductive. Not quite sure that that is true.
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August 5, 2006 10:33 AM
Posted on: August 5, 2006 10:33
There are few constants in the Bush Administration.
1) their public relations (up until the appointment of Tony Snow to Press Sec) has been abyssmal)
2) there is a pattern of hands-off-ineptitude. It's not that they're morons, but rather that the Administration has decided to be decision makers rather than policy implementors. The idea is that they make decisions when asked to make decisions and let the govt's desk jockeys carry it out. This was the perception of many about the Reagan White House, and since JFK's time it's been a back and forth battle as to whether or not the White House should lead and follow through with decisions made, or if it should just make decisions. Contrast the Bush Administration's handling of the war where the WH always defers to the suggestions of intel and Pentagon officials, to the WH of FDR or LBJ (for better or worse) where operations and even targets were chosen by the President himself. Pres Bush is a hands off President. We see it in the way he delegated actions on 911, and we saw it in the way he waited to be called for Katrina, and we see it in his lack of involvement in military and intel operations. He's a Y/N manager...that's it. It's not necessarily a good or bad thing, but it is the current practice, and as such...the WH won't be making the case on Saddam's ties until Tony Snow says it should, and even then...they'll delegate the handling of it.
Posted by: Sam Pender | August 22, 2006 8:42 AM
Posted on: August 22, 2006 08:42