PUNDITWATCH is up! Trent Lott and Patty Murray are the big stories, but there’s more.

I can’t find a transcript yet, but I caught part of Wolf Blitzer’s rather ingratiating interview with Saudi Prince al Faisal and was surprised to hear the Prince say that in the event of combat “the gods of war” will determine the outcome.

The “gods of war?” I thought there was, you know, supposed to be only one God, Allah, with Mohammed as his prophet. Isn’t the Koran kind of hard on polytheists?

I also caught George Stephanopoulos grilling Howard Dean, and thought that Stephanopoulos did pretty well, while Dean was visibly waffling in response to some rather pointed questions.

UPDATE: Here’s the transcript, and here’s the key passage:

BLITZER: Relatively speaking. They refer to the liberation of Kuwait, which was done 40 days of air war, four days of a ground war. Kuwait was liberated with a relatively modest number of casualties.

S. AL-FAISAL: And that was because of the unanimity in the international community and the joining of the battle of so many countries in the world that affected even the Iraqi soldiers who were fighting the war.

BLITZER: So you don’t believe that they can repeat that?

S. AL-FAISAL: Who knows? Once you start war, it’s in the hand of the gods of war.

The “gods of war.” Hmm. That doesn’t sound very Wahhabist to me.