Concluding our two-part "Talkin' Turkey" holiday thread, we've this tape from the Onion archives that brings back fond (frond? fractured?) memories of the Bush Administration:

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and remember: This is an Open Thread.

Condoleezza Rice, Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science and 66th United States Secretary of State, arrived unannounced in the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, just after Turkey's attacks on Kurdish targets in northern Iraq, to do what she does best: step into a bad situation and make it worse.

Keystone Kop-out

Despite the neoconservative establishment's best efforts at amending history, Mr. Bush will go down as the first U.S. president to lose two wars. Efforts at spinning the recent "military success" in Iraq have met their inevitable collision with ground truth.