The Decider Goes to Anbar

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush arrived in Iraq on Monday for a surprise visit along with his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the White House said in a call from Air Force One. Bush landed at al-Asad Air Force base, west of Baghdad in Anbar province, the White House said as the president's plane touched down.

----Bush makes Iraq stopover en route to the APEC meeting, which Laura could not attend due to a pinched nerve, a medical condition known as "George, if you take that homely heifer I ain't going".

As you know, Condi accompanies Bush for the purpose of giving George permission for potty breaks, to check his shirt buttons are done properly, and to answer Dubya's adlib pressing questions such as "are there Blacks in Brazil", or in this case, are there Arabs in Iraq.

No word yet if Dubya thinks this trip could be THE trip that makes him a dead martyr for the ruling class "cause."

Also, no details from the psychobabble experts, on whether Dubya's penchant for coarse-faced hardass female helpmates comes from an infantile fixation upon anal-erotic and S&M stimulation, instilled by the misfortune of having Brawny Babs of the Beautiful Mind for a momma.