Can't They Just Admit It? (washingtonpost.com): "why is it so difficult for the Bush administration to candidly acknowledge and discuss what Americans are not unnerved to learn -- that much prewar intelligence about weapons of mass destruction was wrong?
'My colleagues,' said Secretary of State Colin Powell as he began -- with CIA Director George Tenet seated behind him -- his Feb. 5 exposition to the U.N. Security Council of U.S. evidence of Iraqi WMDs, 'every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources.' But asked last Sunday on 'This Week' whether, 172 days after the fall of Baghdad, the failure to find WMDs had caused him to reconsider what counts as 'solid intelligence,' Powell said: 'No.'
...unless the public is convinced that the government is learning from this war -- learning how to know what it does not know -- the war may have made the public less persuadable and the nation perhaps less safe... they want the government to have the confidence -- in itself, and the public -- to say, as John Book did, that it was wrong. "

Even George Will is on Bush's case! Maybe the American people are finally waking up to this administration.
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