Let's recap the week so far

Today is Thursday, which means that tomorrow is news-dump day, and the closer to 5:00 p.m. the better from the administrations position.

Let's recap the week thus far, shall we? It started with Darth Cheney being summoned to Riyahd by the Saudi royals. They are less than pleased with the war raging in Iraq. And the Wahabist Sunni Saudi's are less than pleased at the goings-on next door in Iraq and the instability that is being fomented in the region. Those 17 Saudi hijackers were not only angry at America, people. The Saudi's know that, but they are banking on the American public not being able to cypher.

Meantime, Dear Leader had a grand get-together cooked up with al-Maliki in Amman, but then Moqtada al-Sadr informed al-Maliki that if he went to the meeting with Bush, the Sadr faction would pull out of Parlaiment and collapse the government. Since they are the largest faction, hiolding 32 seats, they could do it easily.

This left George explaining how he hadn't been stood up for the prom. It wasn't a trilateral meeting afterall, it was a bilateral meeting with Bush and King Abdulluh of Jordan. Iraq was merely a topic discussed in brief.

Thirty thousand troops are being pulled from the violence of Anbar to Baghdad in an effort to quell the violence there and delay the inevitable Fall of Baghdad.

Oh - and Colin Powell - remember him at the U.N. selling this used Gremlin to the nation? He is saying George is wrong and Iraq is in a civil war.

You're doin' a heckuva job, Bushie...A heckuva job.