cheney on the move

News Brief: Vice President Dick Cheney today visited the smouldering remains of a large Iraqi orphanage that burnt down last night after being struck by a U.S. Navy submarine-launched Hellfire missile. Standing amidst the ruins he observed that he thought the fire "had gone very well," that "we were making good progress," and that "it was well worth it." When one reporter observed that Cheney was standing on a pile of charred corpses he responded that most of the children were "dead enders" to begin with and many had "links to Al Qaeda." One of the few surviving children shouted out "God bless you, Mr. Cheney!" at which point Cheney picked up a rock and, hurling it with great force, struck the child in the forehead. "Take that you little Baghdad bastard!" Cheney was heard to mutter before climbing into a Humvee and heading back to the Green Zone for a meeting with the oil minister.