I was all atwitter wondering what new heights of verbal gymnastics the administration that never makes mistakes would reach in trying to spin the just-released National Intelligence Estimate from this past summer which indicates Iran halted it's nuclear weapons program 4 years ago. I knew they wouldn't let me down. From CNN:

Bush said Tuesday he saw the latest estimate on Iran as "a warning signal."

"What's to say they couldn't start another covert nuclear weapons program?" Bush asked.

The latest estimate shows "Iran needs to be taken seriously as a threat to peace," Bush said.

Wow! It's breathtaking in it's simplicity. See, the fact that Iran doesn't have the weapons program we've been accusing them of having just proves how dangerous they are. Don't you get it? They could start a new double-super-secret weapons program any minute now! Be afraid!

Even more brilliance from National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley:

"If we want to avoid a situation where we either have to accept Iran ... with a path to a nuclear weapon, or the possibility of having to use force to stop it, with all the connotations of World War III -- then we need to step up the diplomacy, step up the pressure, to get Iran to stop their so-called civilian uranium enrichment program," he said. "That's our policy going forward -- no change."

We must keep up the pressure on Iran, keep threatening to bomb the bejeebers out of them, in order to force them to abandon the nuclear weapons program they, umm, abandoned 4 years ago. Yeah, that's it. I just love how he uses the phrase, "so-called civilian uranium enrichment program," like he's questioning claims made by those evil Iranians instead of our own National Intelligence Estimate.

Our government is stuck in a Monty Python skit.