Rice Sneaks Into Iraq. What Election Campaign Ploy is She Plotting There?

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Rice makes unannounced visit to Baghdad
Secretary of state is likely to meet with Iraqi officials amid raging violence


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a previously unannounced visit, Iraqi officials said.

Rice has been on a tour of the Middle East, having already visited Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. She was likely to hold meetings with Iraqi government officials, including Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

U.S. officials have been putting pressure on Maliki’s Shiite-led government to reign in militias blamed for much of the sectarian violence ravaging the country.

Washington has made the training of Iraqi security forces the focus of hopes to start withdrawing 140,000 U.S. troops.

Iraq has taken center stage in mid-term U.S. elections due next month in which President Bush’s Republicans are battling to keep control of both houses of Congress.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11942057/


Bush's Soft Bigotry on Terror (10-5-2006)

[katinmn]

1. I'm sure she's as welcome as a bad case of the flu

:puke:

What a waste of airplane fuel.

[bdamomma]

2. condi sneaks in, yea, she's another snake also.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Just another reason to piss off the Iraqi people and waste money

Besides, there are no exciting shoe stores that I know of.

[blogslut]

4. She's hiding out

Plain and simple. She lied about that meeting with Tenet and the CIA before 9/11 and she got caught. So, she's hiding out, far away. And they will make her chicken tactic into a big old photo op.

[AndyA]

5. I can hardly wait for the photo ops to start rolling in.

Condi shopping at Neiman-Marcus Baghdad. Shoes, no doubt.

Condi dining with the troops at Bennigan's on the Square.

Condi taking a walk in the park near the river. Aren't the flowers beautiful?

See, America, everything is great in Iraq. You just can't believe everything you see and hear.

Now Condi's off to watch the Baghdad Review at the Palace Theatre. Opening night, don't ya know...

:sarcasm:

[xultar]

6. She's pickin out the curtains for her palace with Lil Lord Pissypants.

[MadAsHell]

7. Lets see and get the Tinfoil Hats out ...

She will be kidnapped by armed islam-o-fascists after killing ten or twelve with a pen and her high-heel shoe. This all conveniently caught on four or five embedded camaras. After a couple of tearful video tapes with give us liberty or death speeches by kindasleazy and W, a fight-suited Super-pResident will be photographed and videotaped single-handedly freeing her from the a lust-filled knife-welding crazy just before he cuts the strap of kindasleaze's bra. And don't worry they will use body doubles for all the partial nude shots. And all this on November 1st.

[bigtree]

9. that's it!!!!

:bounce:

[CJCRANE]

8. "Rice makes unannounced visit to Baghdad".

Well, it would hardly be safe for her to make an announced visit!

Surprise visits to Baghdad are also another tool in their GWOT distraction bag of tricks, along with capturing al-Qaeda #2's, charging Saddam with something new, diverting flights etc.