Bush's BFF in Anbar Swims with the Fishes

Only last week President Bush made a big show of his secret mission to Anbar province in Iraq, arguing that flying into a heavily fortified US military base under cover of darkness for a 6 hour stopover that included heavily-guarded, clandestine meetings with a Sunni insurgent warlord were signs of political progess in the region. Well, Bush's buddy got himself blown to bits today.

A key Sunni ally of the US and Iraqi governments has been killed in a bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, 37, led what was known as the "Anbar Awakening", an alliance of Sunni Arab tribes that rose up against al-Qaeda in Iraq.




US President George Bush met and endorsed the sheikh last week in Iraq.

George W. Bush, the Typhoid Mary of geopolitical diplomacy.