Dammit, Man! We're the New York Times. We don't have to make sense!

Heh. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at that editorial meeting.

I don't know if anything can save Republicans now, but they ought to keep talking about this one, just to drive a stake in the heart of the liberal media.

And be sure to read Michael Barone's analysis of the Times story. The left has been denouncing Bush's assertion since the Democrats decided that they needed to reverse themselves after voting to authorize force against Iraq. After trying idiotic excuses like "I was only voting for the threat of force," they settled on the equally false, but harder to disprove, claim that Bush lied in order to lure us into a war that was unnecessary. It now turns out that Saddam could have been testing nukes for two years since had we not destroyed his regime.

That really is a thunderbolt. The question is whether there is time for the fraud to sink in by Tuesday. If not, this will make the next two years as uncomfortable for the Dems and they've made the last 4 for George Bush.