| As the evidence of Saddam's interest in acquiring nuclear weapons mounts and the public becomes more conscious of the biological and chemical weapons this maniac has at his control already...
In their guts, people know this. At the rate that heroin, cocaine, and illegal immigrants get into this country, we know that if a half-dozen well organized people want to smuggle a nuclear weapon in here, they can. If Saddam gets his hands on one, we're going to have the damned thing go off in a major American city, and we know it. And yet, Morris the political mechanic cannot stop himself from yakking about the election as if this were just another issue. Gee, if only the Democrats hadn't made this tactical mistake, the country could be talking about prescription drug benefits instead of worrying about a nuke going off in Atlanta. Morris is too close to the game to see it from the stands. This was never going to be the Democrats' year. Ask people in a poll whether they care about "prescription drug benefits," and people will say, "Yeah." But when it comes right down to voting between that and getting blown up, the drug benefits are going to wait. I have a hunch they are going to be waiting in 2004, too. |
This is a telling phrase. Underneath it all, Morris "gets it." He understands that if we don't take Saddam out, and sooner rather than later, we are going to have an incident that makes 9/11 look like an auto accident.