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I hope the press picks up on this. I think they will, based on the White House Press Corps questioning today. They just are not buying it (and why should they?).
As with prior "announcements" by the administration, this latest change in stories only reveals the prior story to be a lie. Not only that, but within the admission of responsibility by Stephen Hadley, it is revealed that there actually are at least two other named responsible parties: Condi Rice and chief speechwriter Michael Gerson. They each received the same memos and/or phone calls. There were at least three instances of the CIA contacting the White House specifically to argue that they drop the Africa/uranium allegation from speeches, and they were not all to Stephen Hadley.
As this continues to simmer, and Bush's numbers continue to fall, I think (within the month) we'll see W. on TV addressing the nation and, finally, very belatedly, "taking responsibility" (without actually taking it). Though he really REALLY doesn't want the "buck" to stop with him, it is being thrown at him repeatedly. Eventually he is going to have to catch it.
But it is already too late. When two or three people are trotted out to accept responsibility before you do, and you only do it because the questions won't stop, then you just look like a coward. (I predict Condi will be forced into being the latest to "take the blame" in the next few days)
Bush will look like an irresponsible, untrustworthy coward to most of the nation by the time this is over.
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