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TO PRESIDENT BUSH, for losing the propaganda battle over the Iran nukes fiasco. It’s bad enough that the U.S. again is being served humble pie over weapons-of-mass-destruction allegations. But this time around, it would have been wise for the White House to have eaten the pie, however unappetizing. Instead, just two days after the intelligence report said Iran halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago, Bush told Tehran to “come clean” about its nuclear activities. No one believes that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is up to anything good. But the U.S. handed a public relations gem to a tyrant who will use it for all it’s worth. Rather than continue the saber-rattling rhetoric from such a poor position, Bush and his key advisers need to stop, regroup and work out a plan that outsmarts a dangerous but containable threat.