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Having been within days of being released last May, the Winograd Report is now set to be released next month, and it won't be any more flattering to the Olmert troika (Olmert/Peretz/Haloutz) than the Interim Report was in 2006.

The latest scheduling hiccup is the nine day tour abruptly announced yesterday by Dana Perino:

President Bush will travel to Israel, the West Bank, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, from January 8th through the 16th next year. In Jerusalem, the President will meet with President Peres and Prime Minister Olmert, and in the West Bank he will meet with President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad.

The President will then travel to Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where he will meet with Amir Sabah, King Hamad, President Khalifa, King Abdullah, and President Mubarak, respectively.

I remember how few people were uninvolved in the myths of the IDF's superiority and the Troika's invulnerability when the Thirty-Three Day War started. With Bush making the rounds widdershins between Cyprus and Tehran there will be plenty of distractions from the final report.