Khalilzad next to be thrown under the Iraq bus by Bush.

Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad is among the Iraq-related military and civilians President Bush will replace. Khalilzad actually will make a much better U.N. Ambassador than Bolton did, but a quote like this:

Michael Rubin, an adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority that administered Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003, said replacing Khalilzad was a positive move that “creates opportunities which we can either seize or squander.”

Khalilzad is a careful diplomat but his efforts to draw Sunni Muslims into the Iraqi political process have not been successful and his status as an American Sunni Muslim gave some Iraqi Shi'ites an excuse to accuse him — erroneously — of pro-Sunni partisanship, said Rubin of the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

You can just hear the gears on the bus, can’t you?