'Tis the Season

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'Tis the Season
Remember last summer, when the media portrayed the Bush administration as being adrift while Democrats called for a debate over what to do about Iraq? (Apparently they had nothing to say about the matter themselves, because if they had, they could have started a debate rather than merely demand one.) Then after Labor Day, the president returned from his August at the ranch, made a powerful speech to the U.N., and a month later had a bipartisan declaration of war.

If Robert Novak, one of the best-connected reporters in Washington and an opponent of Iraq's liberation, is to be believed, something similar is about to happen. Democrats have spent the summer complaining that BUSH LIED!!!!! and Saddam Hussein didn't have any weapons of mass destruction. "Former international weapons inspector David Kay, now seeking Iraqi weapons of mass destruction for the Pentagon, has privately reported successes that are planned to be revealed to the public in mid-September," Novak reports:

Kay has told his superiors he has found substantial evidence of biological weapons in Iraq, plus considerable missile development. . . . Senior officials in the Bush administration believe Kay's weapons discoveries should have been revealed as they were made. However, a decision, approved by President Bush, was made to wait until more was discovered and then announce it--probably in September.

Bush delivered his U.N. speech last year on Sept. 12, the day after Sept. 11 anniversary ceremonies reminded Americans why we are at war. It would be clever of him to use similar timing to put an end to all the carping from those bitter about Iraq's liberation.