What "wild speculation" is all about

[BobcatJH]

Speaking about the now-revealed Iran plans, here's what the End Timer-in-Chief had to say (from the Associated Press):

Bush did not directly respond to that report but said, "What you're reading is just wild speculation."

So the president would like to lecture us about "wild speculation? Well, Mr. President, what would you call this?

Iran, which is defying United Nations Security Council demands to cease its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days if it goes ahead with plans to install thousands of centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a U.S. State Department official said.

Apart from the source already being debunked, it's illustrative to learn what those actual "experts" the president so trusts have to say (from the New York Times):

Western nuclear analysts said yesterday that Tehran lacked the skills, materials and equipment to make good on its immediate nuclear ambitions, even as a senior Iranian official said Iran would defy international pressure and rapidly expand its ability to enrich uranium for fuel.

The official, Muhammad Saeedi, the deputy head of Iran's atomic energy organization, said Iran would push quickly to put 54,000 centrifuges on line - a vast increase from the 164 they said Tuesday that they had used to enrich uranium to levels that could fuel a nuclear reactor.

Still, nuclear analysts called the claims exaggerated. They said nothing had changed to alter current estimates of when Iran might be able to make a single nuclear weapon, assuming that is its ultimate goal. The United States government has put that at 5 to 10 years, and some analysts have said it could come as late as 2020.

So, as you can tell, there are two kinds of "wild speculation." The first is the kind of wild speculation that casts doubts on the claims of the man bent on bringing about the apocalypse. The second is the kind of wild speculation that supports them. Care to speculate about which kind the president was criticizing?