2) Yasir Arafat is still in stable condition, after dying in a Paris hospital. Abu Mazen will likely be in similarily stable condition by years' end.
3) Iraqi elections will go off as scheduled; as will the bombings. Jimmy Carter will complain that the elections were not full and fair, despite 70% of Iraqis voting for a consensual government for the first time in their history.
4) Saddam Hussein's war crimes trial will start, and Saddam will have wished that he was found dead in that spider hole, as hundreds of witnesses testify as to his barbarity. Tariq Aziz becomes star witness for the prosecution, so as to avoid the death penalty himself. Ramsey Clark, one of Saddam's lawyers, shows himself to be nothing more than a partisan hack and butchers any defense Saddam could have mounted by calling Saddam's victims nothing more than 'manufactured lies by the United States.'
5) Mullah Omar is found dead after committing suicide with three bullets to the back of the head.
6) There will be a natural disaster that will remind people once again that the UN is worthless in a time of need and that the US does stuff that no other nation can do in helping more people do more things without the UN.
7) Kofi Annan will be forced to step down after tapes emerge from Congo showing that he was directly involved in the sexual harassment and rape of refugees under UN protection. Kofi will claim that the tapes are a GOP plot to make the UN irrelevant.
8) The UN remains irrelevant and the UNSCAM papers make their way into the mainstream media via the Wall Street Journal, whose Claudia Rossett will not get a Pulitzer despite her award winning work.
9) There will be an attempt at a mass casualty attack in the US but is thwarted when a cop walking the beat notices a truck out of place in downtown LA. His intuition stops a 5,000 pound bomb going off near a Lakers game. However, nothing could stop Kobe Bryant from laying another bomb in the playoffs - as the Lakers fail to make the finals without Shaq.
