The most colossal strategic miscalculation in the history of humankind.
I agree. Striking before the election will re-elect the Prez.
Nope, it's actually an excellent strategy. No matter what happens here (WMDs or regular bombs), we won't turn the Middle East into glass. We'll just comfort ourselves by saying we could have done it.
If I was a psycho Islamist I'd begin a series of grinding attacks in July and continue them through October. That way my allies in the Demoncratic party would have time to drive home the message that Bush is a failure because he didn't protect us from terrorism. Doing it too close to the election would catch the Demoncrats off guard (though they have already had brainstorming sessions on how to profit from such an attack).