Please note: The bold red emphasis below is mine. Apparently the freep-holes were so busy high-fiving themselves over Condi's latest excellent adventure to the green zone that they failed to pick up on "34 people killed Wednesday, 21 U.S. soldiers since Saturday"...even though it's included in "SmithL's" original post. Ignorance IS bliss, at least in RimJob's little corner of the Bush-O-Sphere.:patriot:
Rice Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq
AP ^ | 10/5/6 | ANNE GEARAN
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making an election-season visit to Iraq, said Thursday she will tell its leaders they have limited time to settle political differences spurring sectarian and insurgent violence. "They don't have time for endless debate of these issues," Rice said during a news conference aboard her plane. "They have really got to move forward. That is one of the messages that I'll take, but it will also be a message of support and what can we do to help." Rice said Iraqis must resolve for themselves complex problems such as the division of oil wealth, possible changes to the national constitution and the desire for greater autonomy in various regions of the country. "Our role is to support all the parties and indeed to press all the parties to work toward that resolution quickly because obviously the security situation is not one that can be tolerated and it is not one that is being helped by political inaction," she said.
Car bombs, as well as other explosions and shootings, killed 34 people across the country Wednesday. At least 21 U.S. soldiers have been killed since Saturday, a disproportionately high number. Most of the casualties have been in Baghdad amid a massive security sweep by American and Iraqi forces that has been going on since August.
Posted on 10/05/2006 8:29:43 AM PDT by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1714237/postsTo: Allegra
3 posted on 10/05/2006 8:33:25 AM PDT by CAWats (Post to Free Republic without knowing HTML. Click my name.)
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To: SmithL
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, making an election-season visit to Iraq..."
Only a few words in and the MSM spin begins.
4 posted on 10/05/2006 8:36:17 AM PDT by NinoFan
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To: SmithL
Can anyone on this thread articulate what Bush and Rice's plan is for Iraq? What are the milestones?
6 posted on 10/05/2006 8:37:00 AM PDT by GianniV
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To: GianniV
Milestones:
1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom.
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2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured.
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3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Qaida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaida leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaida leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror.
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4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed.
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5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network.
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8 posted on 10/05/2006 8:42:22 AM PDT by angcat ("GO YANKEES")