Bush defends his credibility on Iraq-al-Qaida [View All]

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/ny-usbush0618,0,6765353.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-manhattan

WASHINGTON -- The finding by the 9/11 commission that Iraq and al-Qaida never collaborated to attack the United States has political trouble written all over it for George W. Bush -- and the president, seeming to sense danger, is striking back hard.

The commission's conclusion threatens to undermine one of the remaining rationales for Bush's decision to wage war in Iraq: that the prospect of an alliance between a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden's minions was too dangerous to risk.

With no weapons of mass destruction found, Iraqi resentment of the U.S. occupation increasing and violence unabated, the commission statement that Hussein and al-Qaida never developed a "collaborative relationship" represents a new blow to the administration's already strained credibility.

Pollster Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center said personal honesty has always been one of Bush's greatest strengths with voters. "The president's credibility is an important issue," Kohut said. "Now if we have, in response to the lack of linkage, more of a belief that Bush was not telling the truth, that they exaggerated or misled the public, it could hurt his credibility."

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Okay, I give. What "credibility" does this single-cell amoeba possess?