Combat in Iraq is over, George W. Bush tells us to the roars of a hand-picked crowd. So is the war over, the nation asks? Well...uh, you see...we, uh...

The more forward-thinking residents of Damascus and Tehran lay in supplies of bottled water and canned food, in case of "liberation."

And a trio of St. Louisans arm themselves feebly with electric guitars and fall in with the world's other superpower, on the march against the next adventure in mass murder.