What Was Your 59th Clue?

It took too damn long — but hopefully not too late. Here’s the story about how Bush changed his mind about Arafat.

President Bush concluded that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat must be removed from power after receiving Israeli intelligence that Arafat authorized a $20,000 payment to a group tied to one of last week’s suicide bombings in Israel, senior administration officials said yesterday.

The first sixty times it happened weren’t convincing enough?