Declassify the Docs!

In today's Wall Street Journal, Senator Rick Santorum and Rep. Peter Hoekstra make a compelling case for the declassification of documents that reveal what has -- and hasn't -- been found in Iraq in the way of WMD's.

They point out that the President may be hesitant to authorize the declassification or disclosure of information, lest he once again be accused of "cherry-picking" information. But if that's the case, the rationale for not acting makes no sense. President Bush's adversaries are going to accuse him of everything under the sun whether or not he declassifies information; might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Moreover, everybody who was inclined to believe that he would do such a thing has already been convinced anyway.

In fact, it could be argued that the only way that the President can actually restore some of the trust he has lost among some (those who still have minds open enough to be changed) is, in fact, to show that fears about Saddam Hussein and his capabilities were well-founded.

And nothing demonstrates that more than showing how much deadly stuff still remains in Iraq -- found neither by Hans Blix nor the Iraq Survey Group, which, as the piece points out, "had fully evaluated less than 0.25% of the more than 10,000 weapons caches known to exist throughout Iraq."