Money bags Cheney was summoned to Saudi Arabia by his bosses

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- CONTRARY TO PREVIOUS REPORTS, CHENEY WAS 'BASICALLY SUMMONED' TO SAUDI ARABIA: "Saudi Arabia is so concerned about the damage that the conflict in Iraq is doing across the region that it basically summoned Vice President Cheney for talks over the weekend, according to U.S. officials and foreign diplomats," the Washington Post reports. "The visit was originally portrayed as U.S. outreach to its oil-rich Arab ally." Cheney's spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride told reporters over the weekend that the vice president had gone to discuss a " range of regional issues," and the Associated Press reported that Cheney was "seeking the key powerbroker's help in violence-torn Iraq and a string of other crises across West Asia."