Not to worry, some cockamimie story will be enough to put the public back to sleep. How about, "The devil made me do it"?. Or, "Barney ate the intelligence report on the way to the office".
The public has never been asleep. It has known since that "minor" event called 9/11 that we have ENEMIES, they are REAL, and we need to obliterate everyone who is involved in supporting or sheltering terrorists. Saddam qualified, big time. He should have been on the hit list even without the threat of WMDs. Thankfully, the public knows this, although the Dems still haven't figured it out.
Which will be very good for 2004.