Jumping to Conclusions

Interesting exchange regarding Kerry's criticism of the administration's "incredible incompetence" on securing weapons in Iraq:

"Now the senator is making wild charges about missing explosives when his top foreign policy adviser admits, quote, 'We do not know the facts,' " Bush said. The military is investigating the missing explosives, he said, "and a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief."

The Kerry campaign responded to Bush's remarks through Gen. Wesley Clark, who said the president knew all about jumping to conclusions.

Bush "jumped to conclusions about weapons of mass destruction," jumped to conclusions about the mission of the war being accomplished in May 2003, and "jumped to conclusions about how we had enough troops on the ground to win the peace," Clark said.

By doing all of that, Clark said, Bush "broke faith with our men and women in uniform. He has let them down. George W. Bush is unfit to be our commander in chief."

(emphasis mine) And Senator Joe Biden

issued an extraordinary rebuke of the administration. Because of missing explosives, "my kid and a lot of other kids might get their ass over there and get blown up by these because of their civilian incompetence," he said, his voice rising to a shout.