Syria, under pressure to leave Lebanon and quit helping the Iraq insurgency, hands over Ba'athists from the former Iraqi government.

Egypt's Mubarak calls for multi-party elections after Condi expresses displeasure with the arrest of a reform protester.

The Syrian puppet government in Lebanon resigns.

As Sam Jaffe says, "We begged him to listen. He didn't. And now we're very close to the point where historians will be naming George Bush as the founding father of democracy in the Middle East. Yes, they will gag on the words. But that version of history will be inescapable if the trendline upon which events are currently racing continues."