[donna]

Yet President Bush and his advisors chose to protect the troops and the mission rather than score political points back on the war’s second front, the American body politic.

It doesn't make any sense.

Why wouldn't Pres. Bush tell the public the story after the mission was competed?

I think the new-world-order elites, like the Bushes, don't believe it is any of our business and if they need our votes they can always threaten us with the "greater evil candidate" at election time. It always works.

[caligatrux]

Why wouldn't Pres. Bush tell the public the story after the mission was competed?

Because it was still there, in Iraq, even after he left office, and there were still plenty of bad guys who would want to get it. Hell, some of it is still there.

I'm not necessary trying to defend the decision not to say anything, but if you accept the premise that it was kept secret to help keep it hidden, then it makes sense that they would have kept quiet about it until they moved it out of there.

[wbarmy]

Or maybe because President Bush doesn’t need a sycophantic crowd constantly praising him for even the smallest action.

He did what he felt he needed to do, and not for some phantom “legacy”.

His legacy is meeting returning troops at airports and hosting wounded warrior bicycle rides.

Although I do wish he would slam this president for his actions a little more.

[hinckley buzzard]

Why wouldn't Pres. Bush tell the public the story after the mission was competed?

Karl Rove told him there was nothing to gain by "relitigating" what he considered a dead issue.

And like an idiot Bush believed him. It's in Rove's book.

The fact is, there were stories about these materials being found at the time they were found. Some of those stories were posted here. Not much of a strategic secret. The rest of the world didn't know because the mass media simply censored the information.

But this guy has a book of his own to sell, so he has his own story.