Don't worry, there is a big election day coming up. There'll be an attack.
I think any attack is at least 2-3 years off, although there will be plenty of bluster and "leaked battle plans" over that period, just as there have been for the last few months, in order to keep the people ginned up and fuel the fires of the Iraqi opposition. It is sooner than you think. We have 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine on order. Those are scheduled to be delivered about the end of the year. We have 25 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine on order. I think the fastest time scale for having those on hand is next spring, and that's optimistic -- plus 25 million doses may not be enough if Saddam uses as many sleepers for the anthrax attacks as he did for 9-11. FEMA has been told to have a plan to house our evacuated urban populations in tent cities by spring of next year, but that seems hopelessly optimistic. On the other hand, the further out you go without getting rid of this guy, the harder it becomes to predict what will happen. If we wait ten years, he might be dying of cancer and give away this stuff to islamacists just for a grudge f***, or he might have transgenics which would nullify any vaccine. Then again, he might have transgenics now. So, it's a trade off. Again, from Bush's remarks the other day, I would guess we're looking at the end of his first term.