What did Bush say in his State of the Union? Here is the statement in question:

BUSH: The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Did Saddam “seek significant quantities of uranium from Africa?” Bush didn’t say that the Brits believe this. He didn’t say that the Brits have made such a claim. Instead, Bush said that the Brits have learned that this happened—and as such, he implied that the Brits’ claim was true. Bush’s statement may even turn out to be accurate, but at this point, Rice doesn’t know if it is. She was bending it—bending it good—in her Fox News Sunday performance. And Barnes and Snow were in the weeds because of her shape-shifting work.