The following is a small excerpt from a very good article by Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard.

Pump Up the Volume
Finally the "nonpolitical" White House gets wise.
by Fred Barnes
12/12/2005, Volume 011, Issue 13

WE NOW KNOW WHAT WAS behind President Bush's mysterious refusal for so many months to respond to Democratic attacks on his Iraq policy--a refusal that came at great political cost to himself and to the American effort in Iraq. It wasn't that Bush was too focused on Social Security reform to bother. Nor did he believe Iraq was a drag on his presidency and should be downplayed. Rather, Bush had made a conscious decision after his reelection to be "nonpolitical" on the subject of Iraq.

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