You may not have noticed, but the Bush administration seems to be on the offensive in the public opinion aspect of the war in Iraq. Cheney’s speech the other day is only one aspect of this — the Pentagon provided briefing papers giving arguments for the Iraq war to the Senate for their vote the other day. Hopefully this is something that is going to be maintained. One thing the Bush administration has not been good at was keeping up the argument for their policies constantly. Things seem to go in spurts — they wait until something is extremely unpopular, and then attempt to do damage control on it. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to work very well, and may be one of the reasons that the President’s approval ratings aren’t very good.