How to make us safer? Give the bomb to Iran

President Bush has come under serious criticism in recent weeks for its domestic spying program that many consider illegal. The administration has defended the spying by insisting that the program is only intended to target those who are suspected of links to al-Qaeda. Apparently, this includes Quakers and Catholic anti-poverty activists as well as anti-war protesters (whose dissent is perfectly legitimate, wink wink).

The president himself has defended the indefensible (admittedly, not for the first time) calling the spying vital to preventing terrorist attacks. Apparently, having to go to a secret court that almost always gives him what he wants is too burdensome for him. Even though he doesn't have to go to this court until AFTER the wiretapping. The mere fact that the presiden has to answer to any other legal entity enrages him.

As he's done so often, the president unilaterally claims unlimited and unchecked power simply by demanding everyone just trust him.

Iran is part of the 'Axis of Evil,' as the president put it. It's a country run by a theocratic regime and who's president has said that the Holocaust is a 'myth.'

Iran has also been in the news for its controversial nuclear energy program. Iran argues that the program is strictly for peaceful purposes to meet the country's energy needs. Critics like the US government have argued that the program is really a cover for developing nuclear weapons.

Now, The Los Angeles Times is reporting that our very own CIA gave Iran the bomb, according to a new book.

In a clumsy effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, the CIA in 2004 intentionally handed Tehran some top-secret bomb designs laced with a hidden flaw that U.S. officials hoped would doom any weapon made from them, according to a new book about the U.S. intelligence agency.

But the Iranians were tipped to the scheme by the Russian defector hired by the CIA to deliver the plans and may have gleaned scientific information useful for designing a bomb, writes New York Times reporter James Risen in "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."

Thank you, Mr. President.

Yes, he only acts to make us safer.

Perhaps those are his intentions, but it's clear that most of the significant decisions he takes have the opposite effect.

Yes, we must blindly trust him and his judgement.

In past years, you could get impeached for lying about a blow job. How times have changed.