[BluH2o]

Why has Bush administration given up to easily on every issue they've had dead-to-rights?

Because, it seems (it pains me to say this), they are clueless. They're caught flat-footed so often (Katrina, Miers, etc.,) you really have to wonder if they have a grasp on reality.

[xcamel]

It was indeed a rhetorical question.
less than 2% of the "Saddam docs" translated and 50% of the stuff the media reported as lies were indeed true.

[o_zarkman44]

The quality of our leadership points directly to the unelected government underlings who are actually the policy steering mechanism. There is where the incompetence lays, or lies.
How can so many loud voices of opposition be ignored from the people who elected Bush? Because he is sheltered from those reports that would exhibit doubt on what the underlings are trying to achieve imho.