Bush: The Dog Ate My War Strategy

Washington -- The White House today announced a delay until sometime in early January before President Bush can unveil his new military strategy in Iraq, because "the dog ate it." Blaming Barney, one of the Bush family pets, an official explained it would take "two to three weeks" to recover and restore all the chewed, mangled remnants of the document which lays out a new direction for our troops in the coming months.

"The plan was complete, well thought out, ready to go, and then this happened," lamented White House press secretary Tony Snow.

Barney has been relegated to, you guessed it, the dog house.