Yesterday on CBS’s “Early Show,” senior presidential advisor Dan Bartlett took the “opportunity to clarify what President Bush is saying” about the war on terrorism:

BARTLETT: Not only after 9/11 do we have to go after Osama bin Laden and the people who perpetrated the act on 9/11, but also we had to change our policy in the Middle East.

The policies of stability in tolerating dictatorships got us 9/11 in the first place. The status quo has to change.

(CROSSTALK)

SMITH: So you’re talking about Saudi Arabia then?

BARTLETT: Absolutely.

I guess this means that, deep down, President Bush was secretly not tolerating Saudi King Abdullah when they held hands and strolled through the wild flowers together in Crawford.

68 U.S. troops have died in Iraq since President Bush went on the longest presidential vacation in 36 years on August 2nd.

The AP reported on August 2nd that at least 1,806 members of the U.S. military had died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003. As of this morning, at least 1,874 members of the U.S. military have died.

President Bush believes it’s time to “get on with his life,” but U.S. soldiers continue to make the ultimate sacrifice on a daily basis.