Predictions

3 sports, 2 political, 0 on food.......

-Newt and Mitt in 2008.

-The Arizona Cardinals will hire some offensive coordinator as their Head Coach and will win 6/7 games next year. They just can't pull the trigger on the biggies......they will always suck because of the Bidwill ownership, Michael Bidwill is a chump wanna-be hardass whose football operations skills are lame. Throw the kitchen sink at Pete Carroll, we Arizonan's CRAVE a winner!!

-The Phoenix Suns will win the NBA Championship in 2007.

-A virtual golf computer game will feature Tiger Woods when he was 2 against his son (due this summer) and Tiger gets beat by his son when Tiger Jr. turns 1.

-With the recent news of Israel seeking to nuke Iran's nuke facilities, President Bush plans to bomb--or allow and help Israel to bomb--the Iranian mullahocracy in order to destroy its nuclear weapons program and bring down the regime, without which, the Shiite militias and death squads of Iraq ... and Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon ... and even Iran's Sunni Palestinian ally, Hamas ... will wither and die.

GW Bush will be seen as the brilliant and resourceful Henry Kissinger, not the bullying, Israel-bashing intellectual lightweight, James Baker.Fourth quarter, fourth down, a minute or so remaining on the clock ... time will tell if we're right soon enough.Meanwhile, it can't hurt to pray.

C Confidential writes...

As for Iran's secular ally, Syria, the Bush plan could be to give it a chance to come around either before or after the attacks on Iran. If Damascus persists in behaving badly, it, too, will be attacked and defeated.

Wild ideas? Maybe. But don't underestimate Bush. He does not want to go down in history as the president who, after 9/11, lost Iraq--and the whole Middle East--to Radical Islam. Bush would rather be remembered as the president who dismantled the Axis of Evil, paving the way for ultimate victory over the movement he correctly considers the new Nazism--Islamism.

The appointment of John Negroponte to second-in-command at the State Department could be a sign of things to come. Hold onto your seats if he replaces Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. That surprise switch would signal that we are indeed in for a wild ride.

Hint: Negroponte served as a political aide to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the late 1960s and '70s. More specifically, he was on the National Security Council staff from September of 1970 until February of 1973, during which time he was in charge of the Vietnam office of the National Security Council staff, supporting Kissinger in his peace talks with the North Vietnamese.

Like Nixon before him, Bush may be a man with a plan ... call it Iraqization ... authored by Kissinger, not James ("F*ck the Jews") Baker, the Israel-bashing, self-styled political realist and former Secretary of State under W's father, President George Herbert Walker Bush. Baker's Iraq Study Group may go down in US diplomatic history as one of the great sideshows--and diversions--of all time.