Unfortunately, he drew the short straw and had to hold down the fort, and Qusay, or Uday, or Ojay, or EBay, or some other Yahoo was supposed to save him a seat... That must of sucked, speaking at the podium and you look back behind the curtain and see the exit door closing and everybody has high tailed it.
Crossing fingers we'll get to see some of the video of our sneaky pete's interdicting along the Syrian border.