Whatever Makes Osama Happy

I've been reading this Wolfowitz statement for two days now and it still stuns me.

He also pointed to another important consequence of the war - the strategic reordering of the Middle East.

"There are a lot of things that are different now, and one that has gone by almost unnoticed-but it's huge-is that by complete mutual agreement between the US and the Saudi government we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia," he said.

"I think just lifting that burden from the Saudis is itself going to open the door to other positive things."

In two days we've been informed intelligence the Bush administration and Tony Blair presented to the public as if it was printed on sacred scrolls was intentionally misleading and now Wolfowitz admits the entire strategy is 'reordering the Middle East'.

I don't understand. Why haven't the paddy wagons pulled into the station?

Also in the Guardian this evening a report that tells us Halliburton and Bechtel are pushing a plan to pawn Iraq's future oil sales to banks and Colin Powell and Jack Straw had 'serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims.'

What could be in the morning news? George admits he was AWOL? Cheney releases the energy papers? Ken Lay announces a tell-all book about to hit the shelves. The possibilities are endless. The only certainty is a poll coming out declaring the majority of Americans don't care about any of it.