You won’t believe (or maybe you will) what the leader of the free world has to say about the public perception that he’s prepping an attack on Iran. (Hint: It’s both intellectually dishonest and grossly inarticulate.)

ThinkProgress:

During an interview with C-SPAN today, President Bush impersonated the concerns of his Iran critics. “I guess my reaction to all the noise about, you know, ‘He wants to go to war’ is, first of all, I don’t understand the tactics, and I guess I would say it’s political,” he said.

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