While the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran has put the Bush White House on the defensive, it's provided endlessly glib "I-told-you-so's" from the chief horsefly at the neocon's family picnic: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The situation is so grave that President Bush has tasked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with keeping the pressure on the gloating Islamic republic.

Several media accounts have exposed the war of words going on between Ahmadinejad and Rice. It's a shame these two can't meet face to face to hash it out.