Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq

[Wonco_the_Sane]

http://tinyurl.com/bqy8q

USA Today.

SALADHIN, Iraq (AP) — Secretary of State of Condoleezza Rice, on a heavily guarded surprise trip to Iraq on Sunday, urged patience for the country's fragile new government and said Iraqis have made remarkable political progress that can overcome a recent surge of violence.

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Rice was a chief architect of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as White House national security adviser during President Bush's first term and she accompanied Bush on his own surprise visit to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day 2003.

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Most Iraqi officials learned of the visit only hours before Rice landed in the region aboard a borrowed government plane, said a senior adviser to Rice, Jim Wilkinson

"We went to every length possible to keep it from as many people as possible," Wilkinson said.

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Gee. If anything is going well at all. Why so secret????????

Oh yeah, never mind, I know. Cuz you and * messed up a country that was NO THREAT to us at all.

Have a nice trip.

:(

[JohnnyRingo]

1. All day tomorrow we'll see her in the latest in "SS chic couture"

All that's missing is the riding crop and monocle.

[reality based]

2. Rice 'n' Boots

Maybe Halliburton can get a contract for a high heeled pair of camo ones. I noticed that one of the corporate cable propaganda channels is showing repeated clips of her striding across the stage in Germany in those demure shiny black ones as a part of this story.