Somebody Threw a Grenade at President Bush

The headline from this CNN story doesn’t cast Bush’s protectors in the most flattering of light:

Secret Service told grenade landed near Bush

U.S. officials are investigating a report that an apparent hand grenade landed about 100 feet from where President Bush was speaking Tuesday in Tblisi, the capital of Georgia, a Secret Service spokesman said.

The Secret Service has not yet confirmed whether the object was a real grenade and if so, whether the pin had been pulled, said spokesman Jim Mackin.

“Hallo, Secret Service? Is Vasily from Georgian police. Yah. Somebody throw grenade near Bush. Hokay. No problem. Bye bye.” I’m guessing if it was, in fact, a real grenade, the odds are that the pin was pulled. Maybe somebody was trying to start a world war.