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Rice Visits Baghdad in Desperation Over Iraqi Leadership

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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice address the U.K. media on Apr. 1. Rice and Straw left England shortly thereafter for their unannounced trip to Iraq. It is Rice’s first trip to the area since November, whereas Straw was last there five weeks ago.

The secretary of state and U.K. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw drop in on Baghdad unannounced—ostensibly to urge government unity, but in all likelihood to try to force the Iraqi prime minister out of his post.

Washington Post:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 2—Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew here together Sunday on an unannounced visit and made a dramatic appeal to feuding Iraqi politicians to quickly form a national unity government before the country fractures further along sectarian lines.

After a day of meetings with political figures that stretched into the evening, Rice said she was “very direct” that “the Iraqi people are losing patience” and “your international allies want to see this get done because you can’t continue to leave a political vacuum.”

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By Brian Michael, April 2, 2006 at 4:42 pm #
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From the WP article, “They flew to Kuwait, with Rice giving Straw the bed in her cabin while she slept on the floor in the aisle way.”

Is that relevant? It like Post is going out of its way to say they did not sleep together. I’m sure they did.

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By felicity smith, April 2, 2006 at 3:08 pm #
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I suspect that crawling around the trash heap that is Iraq is Chalabi, affectionately known as the cockroach. He and others like him are a reflection of the machinations afoot among various individuals and groups to acquire key positions in the Iraqi government, if there ever really is one. It is doubtful that their aims are anything other than self-serving. And of course it is doubtful that American and British aims -oil- are anything other than self-serving. With anarchy seemingly in full swing, who wins and what ensues is anybody’s guess.

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