Abbas Steps Down
Ahmed Qorei has been nominated to replace Mahmoud Abbas as the new Palestinian prime minister. But Qorei says he won't accept the nomination without assurances from the United States because he "absolutely refuses to accept failure." And you can understand his high standards for taking a job as a Palestinian peacemaker, a position where so many have succeeded before.


Abbas will spend the next few days doing radio and TV interviews, talking about what went wrong... which means stepping down as Palestinian prime minister is kind of like getting voted off the island on "Survivor."

Iraq Costs
President Bush told the American people last night that our continuing efforts in Iraq will cost about $4 billion a month. Some of the items pushing the costs so high include:

-We're building 10 new golf courses in Baghdad so all the Halliburton execs can have something to do on weekends

-All Iraqi citizens are being supplied with free food, water, and cable TV's that only get the Fox News Channel

-Massive tax breaks for the top 1% of Iraqi looters

-All pictures of Saddam are being replaced with exact replicas of that 5,300-pound Ten Commandments monument

-$87 billion or $87 trillion... whatever it takes to keep the French out