Denial, and then more denial

It's been fun this week to watch the Bush administration handle David Kay's painfully blunt assessment of the WMD situation in Iraq. While Dick Cheney continues to flatly deny reality in front of conservative groups, Powell and Bush have been trying to have it both ways in the mainstream press by simply arguing that the intelligence suggested WMD was a problem without flatly denying the weapons don't exist. All this silliness hit new heights at a news conference with Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski yesterday in which Mr. Bush tried to be Clintonesque in his language on the matter. This New York Times article discusses the exchange Bush had with reporters. For lovers of liberty the matter gets even funnier/worse at the end of the piece in which the Polish president basically lectures Bush on the future of travel restrictions, something with which citizens of Eastern Europe are far too familiar. How limiting immigration from Eastern Europe helps us with the war on terror is a good question the president should have answered.