[mburbank]

"The questions are can they get it, can they use it and would they sell it?"

Of course those are the questions! But what W is saying in his typically deliberately dense way is, I don't need to know the answers to those questions to hit them. Alls I need to know is they are seeking the knowledge.

They HAVE the knowledge. Everybody does! He's playing stupid and reserving the right to strike if he feels like it.

Diplomatically, that might be a good tool, but I think he might end up actually doing it for the same, simple reason he did Iraq. He felt he should. In his gut. He throws ludicrous statements out there for himself as much as anyone else.

"I had to do it. They had the knowledge. That made them a threat."

He's uninterested in the difference between knowledge and capability.