“George Bush has left us less safe and less secure than we were four years ago.” —Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.), July 22

PRESIDENT BUSH’S 16 words on uranium and Africa in his January State of the Union address–“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa”–have become famous, or infamous. But Dick Gephardt’s 16 words, spoken in the course of a major foreign policy speech this past Tuesday, are the ones that matter.