No, George Bush can't do more than one thing at a time

During the photo-op meeting on Iraq with former secretaries of Defense and State, one had the courage to challenge the President:

Madeleine K. Albright, a bit stirred up after hearing an exceedingly upbeat 40-minute briefing to 13 former secretaries of state and defense about how well things are going in Iraq, asked President Bush whether, with the war "taking up all the energy" of his foreign policy team, he had let the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea spin out of control and allowed Latin America and China policy suffer by neglect.

"I can't let this comment stand," Bush shot back, telling Albright and the rare assembly of her colleagues, who reached back to the Kennedy White House, that his administration "can do more than one thing at a time."

Well, no surprise, that's not true. Witness the situation in Iran which is starting to get really tense and ugly:

Iran threatened on Friday to block inspections of its nuclear sites if confronted by the U.N. Security Council over its atomic activities. The hard-line president reaffirmed his country's intention to produce nuclear energy.

Iran, which really has nuclear capacity, really wants their nuclear capacity. But, Bush was too focused on Iraq which didn't have nuclear capacity even though he said they did.

If you have to say you can do more than one thing at a time, you probably can't.