Here’s President Bush today when he was asked about Sunday’s incident in the Strait of Hormuz, where, according to U.S. officials, a small group of Iranian speedboats issued threats to American ships and then fled just as the Americans were about to open fire:
I’m not sure what happened to the talking points on this one, because all Bush could bring himself to say was that it was “a provocative act,” and (after several more seconds of silence) “they should not have done it.” Hardly what you’d expect given the show they put on last year.
