Anything that was near the melon was deemed as a penalty. The game doesn't get any flow in it when there's 30 odd penalties. But it's like anything new, there's going to be some teething problems.
They (the administration) made a decision to invade Iraq, and then started to search for a policy to justify it. It was a decision in search of a policy and because of the odd way they went about it, people are trying to read something into it.