Has the U.S. government deliberately withheld intelligence from the U.N. inspectors so that they'll fail to find weapons?

It sure seems that way.

Remember, the Bushies are the folks who say a nuke or gas attack from Baghdad on Main Street U.S.A. is likely to happen any day noon -- so soon that we don't have a few months to let the inspections process play out. Yet apparently we have time to let the inspectors search in vain while we withhold information that would help them find proscribed weapons. Forgive me if I fail to follow the logic.