Major Networks Cancel "The Iraq War"

NEW YORK - Citing low approval ratings and budget shortfalls, the long-running drama "The Iraq War" will air its final episode some time in 2008, sources close to the project say.

"The Iraq War", a dramedy fictionally created in the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq, enjoyed a successful first-season run on all of the major networks, but got bogged down in syndication, barely making the cut for a fifth season renewal by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.

"The story lines got really repetitive," Lea Brown, a regular viewer of the Iraqi war show, said via telephone. "Each week, there'd inevitably be another flare-up, a lot of violence would break out. And they kept killing off all the characters, so you were never able to feel sympathy for them."

"That, and it just felt like I had no idea where the show was going or what the point was."

The fourth season of the Iraq war tested so poorly, in fact, that many wondered whether the show's producers would even bother airing it out for a fifth year.

"For some reason, the people in charge don't understand we want the plug pulled on this charade."

Rumors are already swirling about how the show will end, many of which revolve around whether the show's main character and patriarch, George W. Bush, will die in the climactic scene, possibly by assassination or suicide.

"Please," Brown said, "End this show before somebody gets hurt."

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