Scorched Earth Strategy

Oct. 8 - The rationale for war in Iraq has collapsed, so President George W. Bush has declared another war, this one on John Kerry. Bush's blistering attack on Kerry as weak and wavering on war and the worst kind of tax-and-spend liberal foreshadows the next four weeks. Get ready for a scorched-earth campaign from the Bushies, beginning with tonight's debate in St. Louis.
Bush can't defend his policies, so he's conjuring up an image of Kerry as a looming threat whose "strategy of defeat" and insistence on global cooperation would "paralyze America in dangerous times." …