Today’s leader (that’s “editorial” for you Americans) in the Guardian begins as follows:
Shortly before being elected US president, George Bush wasn’t able to name the president of Pakistan when asked in a televised interview. Yet, according to his national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, in the months leading up to September 11, President Bush was fully briefed and supported a detailed plan to help General Musharraf cut off support to al-Qaida in Afghanistan. As Groucho Marx once asked: “Who do you believe – me, or the evidence of your own eyes?”
Precisely.