I thought of that one too. Bush gets the blame (and I don't have any particular fondness of him either), but he is not the one that personally went over there and gathered the intell. Guess who did and reported to him?

Presidents are only as good as the people that they surround themselves with and the career bureaucrats they can convince do what they want. Sometimes it is the career bureaucrats that really set the agenda. They can drag their feet if they don't like something, or go overboard if it fits their agenda.

John