[lelio]

The problem I see is that Bush wanted a real zinger in his speach and thought this one would probably pan out. Why did he overreach when it wasn't necessary? Now all intelligence presented by the administration is going to be treated as suspect.

[Dane]

The problem I see is that Bush wanted a real zinger in his speach and thought this one would probably pan out. Why did he overreach when it wasn't necessary? Now all intelligence presented by the administration is going to be treated as suspect

Oh I see, one sentence is wrong, so the other 1,000 sentences are now "suspect".

Send me a postcard when you reach that place called "a perfect world".

[rintense]

A real zinger? Well if he thought Iraq trying to by nuclear components in Africa was it, then he fell way short. Again, this intell was based on British intelligence, not the CIA. Probably why Tenet had no problem with it- because it wasn't our own.

[Tribune7]

Now all intelligence presented by the administration is going to be treated as suspect.

It always was going to be treated as suspect by some people. Further, whatever mistake he made was going to amplified and publicized by the still very influential and numerous leftists in our communications industry.

It is impossible for any administration not to, at some point, make a mistake. The worst thing we conservatives do is to pile on. The best thing we can do is laugh at the leftist.

And if a conservative such as Doug Thompson admits to wrongly publishing information that is derogatory about Bush, you praise him for coming home, not harp on him so he never again wants anything to do with you.

[William McKinley]

It was a throwaway line, not a zinger. What evidence do you have that it was an overreach? About the only things suggesting that Bush had any reason to doubt the intelligence data are a story quoting a fictitious person from CHB that got picked up in several places, a CBS News story that contradicts itself, relies only on anonymous sources and may in fact be the exact same story as the CHB one (and not just similar to it), and a bunch of allegations from increasingly desperate Democrats.