Even liberal journalists are amused by Adam Nagourney’s account of how General Wesley Clark is twisting like a pretzel over his views on Iraq. He’s so unready for prime time he’s asking aides to remind him what his views are:

“Mary, help!” he called to his press secretary, Mary Jacoby, at the front of the plane, as he faced questions about Iraq. “Come back and listen to this.” He would have voted for the war to give “leverage” to the UN a la John Kerry, but Howard Dean is also right. “I didn’t want to go in there either.”

Who said generals are decisive?