Uh, George? I know you're lounging about your Texas ranch all happy that Condi outsmarted the commission (so it seems, so far), but are you seeing the great, black, swirling tornado headed your way?

This just in (from AFP, Baghdad) . . ."US troops armed with machine guns and backed up by armour again blocked the highway further west, but were forced to let the Iraqis past as they came under a hail of stones."

Did you get that? With stones. The machine guns gave way to outraged citizens with stones.

I wish we could just deliver you and Karl Rove and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Condi-- the whole lot of you right into their hands. Wish they could take it all out on the pack of you in good old Middle Ages-style, drawn and quartered.

It's the Crusades, folks-- welcome back.

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