President Bush had an on-the-record session with a handful of journalists in the Oval Office this morning. We’re going to share some parts of it here. President Bush said that he hadn’t gotten a chance to study the new Zawahiri tape closely, but he is interpreting it this way: “Zawahiri said, ‘Strap them on, we’re going to threaten you in the Persian Gulf.’” Bush thinks that means Zawahiri wants to target countries like Bahrain, Dubai, and the UAE. On Bin Laden, Bush emphasized the importance of intelligence. Perhaps with those critics on his mind who argue that we took our eye off the ball by not committing the troops necessary to find the terror leader, Bush said,“100,000 troops there in Pakistan is not the answer, it’s someone saying ‘Guess what?’ [i.e. `I know here he is’] and then the kinetic action begins.”