Clueless

' Seven weeks ago, Bush said that in the interest of "avoiding World War III" Iran should be prevented from gaining the knowledge needed to make a nuclear weapon. That was roughly two months after J. Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence, reported to Bush that he had "some new information" about Iran.

"He didn't tell me what the information was; he did tell me it was going to take awhile to analyze," the president said. He said he was not briefed on the report until last week, and that in the interim no one had suggested that he tone down his language. ' ...