Some allegations over Iraq's undiscovered weapons -- that Bush manufactured evidence to justify a war for oil or empire, for political advantage or ideology -- don't make much sense, unless you believe that President Clinton's defense secretary was similarly inventive when he brandished a five-pound bag of sugar on national television as a stand-in for the Iraqi anthrax he said could destroy much of Washington. The more damning possibility, in fact, is that Bush did not move aggressively enough to guard nuclear and other sites in Iraq to prevent possible dispersal. But the president's blithe and sweeping statements on the...