Days of Wine and Roses

Our day will come
And we'll have everything
--Our Day Will Come, Mort Garson
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In Tuesday's opening addresss at the Annapolis Mideast Peace Conference (an oxymoron if ever there were one), Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged: "The days of war and terrorism are passed." Obviously, Mr. Abbas was prophesying from the year 2525.

Word is, Vice Vice President Cheney, while closely following the proceedings from an undisclosed location, was overheard to make a slight personal emendation to Abbas's words.

An unidentified bystander said it sounded like Mr. Cheney said, while intoning along with Mr. Abbas's words, "The days of war and terror are ours." But of course, the words were a bit muffled, coming as they were from behind his helmet.