Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 25, 2001
August 24, 2001
August 26, 2001
Transcript:
Rev. Sloan: B.D., I don't know who this new breed of maniac is, but I think you'd agree that no one tops Saddam Hussein, right? And yet during the Gulf War, when he could have lobbed biological weapons into Israel, he didn't. Why? Because he knew that if he did, Baghdad would disapper in a mushroom cloud! He was, in a word, deterred. B.D.: Or off his game! You don't know! Rev. Sloan: These guys are evil geniuses, B.D., not evil idiots!
Three weeks later the world will know about the new breed of maniac.