WaPo's sober assessment of 'The Leak'

The Washington Post yesterday gave probably the most level-headed assessment of the so-called Bush leak crazed liberals like Ben Affleck are slavering over.

PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make clear why he had believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons. Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public benefits when they do. But the administration handled the release clumsily, exposing Mr. Bush to the hyperbolic charges of misconduct and hypocrisy that Democrats are leveling.

End of story, right? Wrong, because the Democrats will continue to ride this story as far as it can go. Fortunately, more serious minds have already dismissed this a long time ago.

The whole affair was handled poorly by the Administration, and they've been shown to be remarkably poor at getting a coherent message out. Man, I'm tired of all of this. Though I support a lot of Bush's foreign affairs policies in general, I've grown frustrated of his inability to see them through to fruition and his inability to give a convincing message. That, coupled with his free-for-all spending and his wrong-headed position on illegal immigration, makes me look forward to alternatives in 2008.