Played?

[Undertoad]

Watch the other shoe as it drops:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/r...20030809.shtml

WASHINGTON -- Former international weapons inspector David Kay, now seeking Iraqi weapons of mass destruction for the Pentagon, has privately reported successes that are planned to be revealed to the public in mid-September.

Kay has told his superiors he has found substantial evidence of biological weapons in Iraq, plus considerable missile development. He has been less successful in locating chemical weapons, and has not yet begun a substantial effort to locate progress toward nuclear arms.

Senior officials in the Bush administration believe Kay's weapons discoveries should have been revealed as they were made. However, a decision, approved by President Bush, was made to wait until more was discovered and then announce it -- probably in September.

Bold mine. So, is this the timeline?
<ul><li> Bush decides to withhold WMD findings until September

<li> Bush tells Ari Fleisher to sheepishly tell the "16 words" story on his last day of employment. (One CNNer described it as a "going away gift" -- but for whom? read on)

<li> Press eats it up during slow summer news cycle

<li> White House, w/ new press secretary, offers no other news for a while

<li> D candidates eat it up (Kucinich foaming @ mouth, Dean's "Bush lied!" etc.)

<li> Story plays all summer

<li> September, announcements of WMD findings

<li> Entire story flops back to side of justified war

<li> Three months before Iowa, the Ds are heavily divided, appearing leaderless with half pushing a disappearing and now vaguely anti-American agenda</ul>
That's assuming that the Novak column is true. But if this item is true:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...2411&printer=1

LONDON (AFP) - The British government is soon to present new evidence that Iraq had produced biological weapons, it was reported.

Intelligence officials were producing another dossier on Iraqi arms, and "there is said to be hard evidence of cover-up programmes designed to conceal weapons of mass destruction", the British magazine "The Economist" said in its latest issue.

"We would hope to be able to demonstrate in the fullness of time that almost all the information in the dossier (published by the government last September) was accurate", a government insider told the magazine.

The dossier that led to the 16 words? I forget. I think it was. In any case, there it all is, and we wait.