You snooze, you lose

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Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

Those attacks could've been in in 2002 (twice) and 2003. Yet it takes until 2006 because it wasn't political. Yeah, Bush really cares about the war on terror.