TROOPS

Bush yesterday:

Now the Senator is making wild charges about missing explosives, when his top foreign policy advisor admits "we don't know the facts." End quote. Think about that. The Senator is denigrating the actions of our troops and commanders in the field without knowing the facts.

Rudy Giuliani, campaigning for Bush on the Today Show, this morning:

The president was cautious, the president was prudent, the president did what a commander in chief should do. No matter how you try to blame it on the president the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?

Since claiming they just found out about this didn't work, and saying the explosives were gone when the troops got there didn't work, and since saying the Russians took them didn't work... and apparently since saying Kerry is denigrating the troops didn't work... will their attempts to blame the troops work?

In their desperate search to find an explanation, the administration is doing their best Dan Ra^ther impersonation. (round-up from The Moderate Voice)