Dubya says "we cannot wait for final proof of Saddam's plans"

Good point! (btw as much as i detest mickey kaus, i love saying 'good point!') Funny thing is, Saddam has outwardly hated us for 11-12 years now, and no plans have even come up! It seems that all he wants to do is run his secular oppressive regime*, grow some gazelles for dinner, make sure his doubles don't sleep with his mistresses, and maybe, just maybe throw some anti-aircraft fire up at some no-fly-zone patrol planes from time to time.

Of course, Bush could have a point, if you creatively lengthen his quote a little bit:

"we cannot wait for final proof of Saddam's plans, because we might not find proof before the midterm elections!"

In this case, of course, "we" refers to Bush's own regime.

* -as opposed to a Muslim fundamentalist regime, the preferred regime of choice for Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. In his speech yesterday, Bush tried to make it sound as if Saddam were running a fundamentalist regime, when in fact his is a secular Arab regime. And if we look at the "war on terrah", we see that a number of secular oppressive regimes, namely Abdullah's Saudi Arabia and Musharraf's Pakistan, are viewed by the Bushies as allies. Nevermind, of course, that Saudi Arabia produced 15 of the 19 hijackers, and that Pakistan was the birthplace of the Taliban, and Bin Laden may still be hiding there.