Let this be a lesson

A charge that isn't answered quickly is perceived as an admission. (Link requires subscription-It's a poll indicating that a majority of respondents believe that the White House misleads the public.)

Bush has a reluctance to get involved in the kind of "you did-I didn't" arguments that the left is always raising, but he can't afford to ignore stuff like the claim that he misrepresented intelligence to justify thi war in Iraq. Saddam and his sons were an international threat if only because they were corrupting member states on the Security Council, and because their pathological cruelty and inpredictability left no bounds to what they were capable of.