Finally the Democratic Party has agreed upon a unified position on the war. The following statement was issued this morning by Howard Dean, spokesman for the Party:
“Bush and the neocons could be wrong about everything. It could be that if we had left Saddam Hussein in power, things would be better in the Middle East, or at least no worse. It could be that the Jihad will never be more than a nuisance for us here in the U.S.A., less of a threat than holiday highway accidents. It could be that it will just peter out from lack of interest. It’s possible that the declarations of war against the entire Western world issuing from Iran and Hezbollah and Al Qaeda and North Korea are just the pathetic fantasies of madmen, best ignored. Maybe nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranian mullahs and Kim Jong Il won’t really matter all that much. Perhaps we can just absorb the occasional bombing or deadly virus outbreak or Jew-shooting without any substantial impact on our way of life. Maybe we can just wait it out. Who knows? We certainly hope so. Vote for hope. Vote Democratic.”
Who knows?