Day: June 13, 2006

President George W. Bush made an unannounced visit to Baghdad today.

“Good to see you,” Iraq’s new Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Bush as they shook hands in one of Saddam Hussein’s old palaces. “Thanks for having me,” Bush replied.

The White House said Bush would be on the ground for more than five hours and would also meet U.S. troops during the surprise trip, begun in high secrecy.

The visit, his first since November 2003 when he went to see U.S. troops for Thanksgiving, comes six days after a U.S. air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.

Meanwhile, the MSM is freaking out over the way they were informed of Bush’s visit. According to Drudge:

White House loaded press corps onto bus to go see Bush at Camp David, then when bus left — announced he was in Iraq!

It’s a beautiful day.

There’s mass weeping and gnashing of teeth today. Embarrassment abounds.

The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case on Monday advised Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, that he would not be charged with any wrongdoing, effectively ending the nearly three-year criminal investigation that had at times focused intensely on Mr. Rove.

The decision by the prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, announced in a letter to Mr. Rove’s lawyer, Robert D. Luskin, lifted a pall that had hung over Mr. Rove who testified on five occasions to a federal grand jury about his involvement in the disclosure of an intelligence officer’s identity.

Yet, amazingly enough, there are still a few hold-outs.

Lunacy.

Rick over at Right Wing Nut House provides the contrast. Michelle Malkin calls this “Rove Derangement Syndrome Day.”

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