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Saddam Hussein has been a very naughty boy and may need a spanking. If so, Hans Blix has the right man for the job: Jack McGeorge of Woodbridge, Va., U.N. weapons inspector and co-founder of a group called Black Rose— dedicated to S&M. Really.

Sen. John Kerry is the latest liberal Democrat from Massachusetts to run for president. On December 1, he announced that he’s forming a committee to raise funds for his party’s nomination. As a decorated Vietnam vet, Kerry will first try to distinguish himself with his biography. He will eventually have to turn to issues, however, and on the domestic front he offers little more than the left-wing fare of hostility to tax cuts and school choice. On foreign policy, Kerry can play a more useful role, though he’s no hawk—he opposed the Gulf War a decade ago and is not a tan of military action in Iraq now. His criticism earlier this year of George W. Bush’s failure to kill or capture Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan may haw been opportunistic—but it may also have been correct Pressing this theme would serve the public interest, insofar as it encourages the administration to risk troops when the cause is important enough. So would robust criticism of the Saudi regime. Most Democrats spent 2002 wishing away the war on terrorism, because they saw it as benefiting the GOP. It’s not going away. Kerry is hereby invited to prove that Democrats have their own contribution to make to the war effort.

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Saddam Hussein has been a very naughty boy and may need a spanking. If so, Hans Blix has the right man for the job: Jack McGeorge of Woodbridge, Va., U.N. weapons inspector and co-founder of a group called Black Rose— dedicated to S&M. Really.

Sen. John Kerry is the latest liberal Democrat from Massachusetts to run for president. On December 1, he announced that he’s forming a committee to raise funds for his party’s nomination. As a decorated Vietnam vet, Kerry will first try to distinguish himself with his biography. He will eventually have to turn to issues, however, and on the domestic front he offers little more than the left-wing fare of hostility to tax cuts and school choice. On foreign policy, Kerry can play a more useful role, though he’s no hawk—he opposed the Gulf War a decade ago and is not a tan of military action in Iraq now. His criticism earlier this year of George W. Bush’s failure to kill or capture Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan may haw been opportunistic—but it may also have been correct Pressing this theme would serve the public interest, insofar as it encourages the administration to risk troops when the cause is important enough. So would robust criticism of the Saudi regime. Most Democrats spent 2002 wishing away the war on terrorism, because they saw it as benefiting the GOP. It’s not going away. Kerry is hereby invited to prove that Democrats have their own contribution to make to the war effort.