[Fred Mertz]

Enjoy it while you can, boys. Sometime in the next two months President Bush will be invading Iraq.

We shall see, but I have my doubts.

[aristeides]

I suppose it's true that news of military victories would cancel out bad economic news. But that would not be a good reason to attack sooner than military prudence dictates. Even if you're just concerned with politics, it would be an unreasonable risk: news of military defeats, combined with bad economic news, could lead to a real electoral disaster.