William Grieder, from The Nation:

Not to risk blasphemy, but shouldn’t a special commission look into whether God provided the warrior President with faulty intelligence? Recall that George W. Bush has confided to Bob Woodward that in shaping his plans for invading Iraq he relied on advice from a “higher father,” not on Poppy Bush in Texas, the former President. Now we learn from advance news leaks that the 9/11 Commission has concluded from its investigation that it was Iran, not Iraq, that collaborated with Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorists before their attack on America. Oops. Have we gone to war against the wrong country? One assumes it was not the Almighty who confused the two nations. Maybe Bush suffered from a fuzzy connection in his prayer circuitry. So close to God, yet so distant from the truth.

What’s scary about Bush’s recent claims that Iran, not Iraq, may have been linked to 9/11 is that he gave us the blueprint for his perpetual war in his “Axis of Evil” speech — Iraq, Iran, North Korea. (Notably lacking are countries like Sudan, where a few people could use our help.) Does anyone actually believe Bush is seeking peace? His plans seem more like The Onion T-shirt: “End racism. Kill everyone.” If you believe you’re going to heaven, why not?