Bush might have to do it before the '04 elections if his numbers keep falling. Nothing like a good shoot 'em up military action to keep a man in office. It's the old BS of 'don't changes horses in ...............' or whatever.
I don't know, I disagree. I get the impression the Bush team is very adverse to making war in an election year...I really believe it is a reason why we pressed for conflcit in Iraq this Spring, as opposed to say further down the road. I think market reaction to such conflicts plays a big part in this thinking.
In a year I would think Iraq will be pretty stable, and anything that happens in Afganistan would be an improvement from what was there before, regardless of what people say. I think they wanted to do Iraq this year to make sure it wasn't in the mode it is in right now for election year.
Sure there were other reasons for going in the Spring of 2003, but I really think there were political ones as well.
It's just a feeling, but I think they are stalling with N. Korea, where they were rushing/pressing Iraq.