A BEWILDERED RUMSFELD PLANS FOR IRAQ ATTACK

One of the watered-down findings of the largely toothless Sept. 11 commission includes a detail (at the end of page 334) that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asked Gen. Richard Myers to "obtain quickly as much information as possible."

Sure, that makes sense.

But the report continues, "The secretary said his instinct was to hit Saddam Hussein at the same time -- not only Bin Ladin. Secretary Rumsfeld later explained that at the time, he had been considering either one of them, or perhaps someone else, as the responsible part."

Got it?

"Either one of them, or perhaps someone else," yet when the intelligence came back it was a fictitious hunt for WMD in Iraq that the administration ordered.

That sure inspires confidence.