ill there be an October surprise? Probably, with the election so close at hand and so many forces trying to impact on the outcome of the race, there is most likely to be some revelation, scandal, gaffe or pronouncement that will cause the excruciatingly close race to burst wide open and hurl either Bush or Kerry into the lead. Discounting external threats in the form of the war in Iraq, potential battlefields elsewhere, or God forbid, a terrorist assault here at home, it might well come in the form of an announcement by President Bush of some members of his cabinet for the following four years, should he win. It could be a powerful boost to his prospects if he told us that his Attorney General was going to return to private life to be replaced by Rudi Giuliani. How about Sen. John McCain as Sec. of Defense, an extraordinarily popular man to replace a most divisive Don Rumfselfd?
Then, I would presume, Sen. Kerry would be impelled to present some of his appointments. Suggestions which might have appeal:
To the Supreme Court (because there will almost certainly be vacancies within the next four years to the currently conservatively-weighted highest court), a man who has rejected the idea before, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Secretary of Defense, Gen. Wesley Clark, the former four star General who was the NATO Supreme Allied Commander.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Governor of Vermont and M.D., Howard Dean.

And then ...wouldn't it be a real October surprise if the next Secretary of State would be former President of the United States, Bill Clinton.
Well I can dream.

I dream too of an end to the Bush preventive war doctrine which has proven itself to be a monstrous failure. A policy which is likely to keep our troops tied down in Iraq for many years to come with an uncertain outcome and a steadily rising body county - theirs and ours.
Formally our leaders, Republican and Democrat, considered war as a last resort, available to us when our vital interests were threatened or when diplomatic efforts just didn't work. No, we don't have to wait to be attacked first, but as time and events have shown in the case of Iraq there were no weapons stockpiles and no operational links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda's terrorism.
We know that we are at war with Al Qaeda for good reason and we must fight back and defeat them with all our might, but the war in Iraq was a war of this administration's choosing, for reasons that will one day become clearer than the records of W's National Guard service.

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