American Affairs Desk: Persistence of Monotony

Dateline: Baghdad. Bush and Maliki agree to a TIME HORIZON draft proposal for US troop withdrawal from Iraq.

This bit of surreal news fell well under the radar last week, what with all the hubub about the Democratic convention, PUMAs, did she/he do enough for Barack, VP selections, and the amount of houses John McCain owns. Another in a depressingly long line of abstract flip flop/flim flam from the Bush administration.