The Secretary of State has said this to the Washington Post, about Iran:

“I have seen some information that would suggest that they have been actively

working on delivery systems … You don’t have a weapon until you put it in

something that can deliver a weapon.”

And this he also said:

“There is no doubt in my mind … they have been interested in a nuclear weapon

that has utility, meaning that it is something they would be able to deliver,

not just something that sits there.”

Mr. Powell, are you out there? Hello? [Rapping urgently on Monitor and waking dog.] May I ask a question? Are you batlooney? The asshats blowing up our Army and Marine convoys in Iraq aren’t having any trouble delivering their explosives. They just leave them sitting there, until our people go by, then BOOM.

I realize Powell is referring to nukes. But he doesn’t think a resourceful group of Iranians could get a nuke on a truck fairly close to US in Qatar or Kuwait, or our friends in Jerusalem?

Two parting shots before I totter off to bed:

I used to have an old Mercury that was gradually, incrementally, costing me more than the whole car was worth. Someone said “you ought to replace it.” I said, “I am. One part at a time.” I see now we were wrong about being wrong about WMD in Iraq. They got ‘em alright; we’re just discovering them a little at a time. If over 1200 young dead and at least 10,000 wounded isn’t mass destruction, I don’t know what is. And that’s not even getting started on the WMD we’ve unleashed on them.

It seems Powell isn’t content to go out with a Whimper; he’s definitely got a preference for Bang.