"The Turkey Has Landed" is the headline in a British newspaper today, and what would we do without the Brits and other European nations who retain the quaint notion that journalism exists to call things the way they are?

At least one reporter who traveled with the president got to wear a flak vest, though such vests are in short supply among the soldiers who dined with the only military deserter to ever become Commander-in-Chief. Soldiers are asked to buy their own vests, while the Bush administration continues to cut both soldiers' and veterans' benefits every way possible. In fairness to the White House, U.S. military and veterans' hospitals have been abysmal for years; now, other services are being cut back or eliminated.

It's a shame the president didn't spend more than two and a half hours in Iraq: If you blow up an entire country, the least you can do is take some time out to sift through the rubble.