The administration may have made good faith errors - after all it's difficult to make predictions with 100% accuracy. But conservatives shouldn't get defensive about it, because it doesn't change the overall decision about the war.
I have no idea why Newsmax distorts as much as they do. I have a hard time taking anything they say seriously.
The Dems will scream and screech ... they are so filled with hatred for G.W. Bush that it wouldn't matter if he got on TV today and announced that he had personally discovered cures for AIDS, the common cold and halitosis, they'd find something in there to hammer him with. And as long as this is hanging out there, it could very well have a little bit of legs and be a bit problematic for the administration. The folks here who are saying "this is nothing, it's a black hole for the Dems, it's irrelevant and (this one drives my blood pressure up the most because just as the Dems are blinded to their detriment by their hatred for G.W., many on our side are still blinded to their detriment by hatred for Bubba) what about all the lies Clinton told?" need to back up and face reality and get ready to do what needs to be done.
And what needs to be done is for G.W. to get out front and face this stuff head-on and put every card on the table. If no WMDs show up, he needs to stress the point that we were operating by the best intelligence we had, that there was incontrovertable proof that Saddam has had WMDs in the past and that we simply could not take the chance post-9/11 that he might have them again.
Most of all, he needs to drive home this point ... and I'm sorry for shouting ... THIS IS A SAFER AND BETTER WORLD WITHOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN RULING IRAQ!
It's obvious that most of the folks in this country trust G.W., and I submit that this kind of honesty and truthfulness would register and connect, and it would cut the Dems off at the knees and silence their whining, and THEN it would be a dead issue.