September 27, 2002 9:00 a.m.

Earth to Democrats. You might have thought that Madeleine Albright — the one who could never quite figure out whether she was Jewish or not, or was it whether or not her father was? — the woman who will go down in a sad footnote to history as the first American Secretary of State to actually, literally, dance with a dictator (in North Korea no less), would be so ashamed of her miserable performance in office that she would restrain herself when asked her opinion of the president's request for authorization to blast Saddam to a higher level of reality.

But no. She is a Democrat, and Democrats are in a drooling frenzy over Saddam these days. "It is not an American trait to want war," she says.

Bwaaaaahahahaha, Madeleine, and nice hat!

Will no one tell her, and Drooling Daschle, and the rest of them, the highly classified secret of 2001?

Okay, since you insist, I'll tell them. We were attacked.

— Michael Ledeen's new book, The War Against the Terror Masters, has just been published by St Martin's Press.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2002