Politics: Forty-Eight Hours

Although there are no news stories up with the revised timeline, CBS News just reported that Bush will now give only forty-eight hours for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq, not seventy-two hours as earlier reported. The White House apparently is leaking this information now, so that most of the evening news programs can be breathless for war as they prepare to golf-announcer-like moderate Bush's eight pm statement.

Okay, the AP is carrying the new timeline. More when Bush makes his mealy-mouthed final final final speech for war.