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I am certain Bin Laden fears a Kerry presidency more than a Bush second term. He knows – and I think we all know this – that Kerry would summon in the military guys, and say “I want you to find bin Laden.” Uh – sir, I don’t quite – "I mean it. Find him. " You mean, find him? Why – such a thing has never been considered, sir; we’ve just been waiting for him to wander into camp looking for directions, or perhaps to use the bathroom. That whole Abu Ghraib thing - well as you no doubt...

American prosecutors are preparing charges against Benon Sevan, the former head of the United Nations oil for food programme, who has been accused of accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from Saddam Hussein's regime. Congressional investigators examining alleged corruption in the programme disclosed that Mr Sevan's diplomatic immunity would not prevent an indictment being issued. Mr Sevan has consistently denied any wrongdoing. "We have tried to find out what part he had and we've been working to lift the lid on what he did," said one official on the US Congress International Relations committee. "My understanding is that we can...

How do you maintain that the current administration's policy toward North Korea—a country that, when Bush first took office, had two nuclear weapons and now has six—is the best way to deal with that country. Hanson: Two or six nukes—the administration still inherited a situation in which the Jimmy Carter/Bill Clinton solution of food and oil for good nuclear behavior failed miserably, despite post facto efforts to explain away the disaster. The Americans now have bad and worse choices only—how do you negotiate with a lunatic with nukes who has utter contempt for the United States, and can wipe out...

Unadulterated Dennis Miller on Jay Leno just minutes ago: That's why I like Bush. He doesn't over-think it. He wakes up every morning, jumps out of bed, lands on his two feet, scratches his balls, and says, "Let's kill some f@#@$ing terrorists!" And the crowd applauded.

Do the insurgents in Iraq see their battle as won or lost by November 2, 2004 election? Hanson: That is hard to tell, since the more critical date is the Iraqi elections in January which if successful will make the terrorists’ murdering even more difficult, inasmuch as they really will be seen as reactionaries fighting an elected government. One thing is clear, however, that the antagonism toward Bush throughout much of the Middle East and in the Arab World in general is in part attributable to his questioning of the global status quo, which was corrupt and amoral. When a...

Recent polls show Bush ahead of Kerry by 9 points (CBS-NYT), 6 points (Gallup) or 3 points (Zogby). One Pew poll even put Bush ahead of Kerry by 16 points. The average of national polls has Bush 6 points ahead. Apparently, just like in Vietnam, it's taken Kerry only four months to piss off everyone around him. The polls for Kerry are so bad that Al Hunt and Michael Moore are starting to yelp, "The polls mean nothing! Ignore the polls!" The only polls liberals ever considered "unimpeachable" were the ones that showed high approval ratings for Clinton during his...