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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/15/iraq.main/index.html
Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced trip to Iraq on Sunday, urging patience for the country's fragile new government and offering encouragement to American troops.
Rice, making her first visit to Iraq as secretary of state, spoke to hundreds of U.S. troops and diplomats in Baghdad.
"I want you to keep focused on what you are doing here," Rice told the diplomats and troops who gathered in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. "This war came to us, not the other way around."
"The United States, along with the rest of the free world, believed somehow for a number of years that people in this region didn't care about freedom," she said. "We cared about stability. And what we got was neither. We got a malignancy that was growing that came to haunt us on the fine September day" in 2001.
Earlier on Sunday, Rice took a U.S. military helicopter to Saladhin, the northern Iraqi mountain stronghold of Kurdish Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani.
The two met to discuss the expected drafting of a new Iraqi constitution by August.
"There needs to continue to be some momentum in the political process," Rice said.
She is scheduled to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari later in the day, a State Department official said.
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Re: Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq
« Reply #1 on: May 16th, 2005, 7:52am » |
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makes sense to me. Its what i have been saying all along
"I want you to keep focused on what you are doing here," Rice told the diplomats and troops who gathered in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. "This war came to us, not the other way around."
"The United States, along with the rest of the free world, believed somehow for a number of years that people in this region didn't care about freedom," she said. "We cared about stability. And what we got was neither. We got a malignancy that was growing that came to haunt us on the fine September day" in 2001.
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Re: Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq
« Reply #2 on: May 16th, 2005, 8:12am » |
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on May 16th, 2005, 7:52am, thebeast wrote:
"This war came to us, not the other way around."
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hhmmm....weak!
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Re: Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq
« Reply #3 on: Jun 1st, 2005, 1:39pm » |
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Abslolutely weak.... and lame... America waged war in iraq because they wanted control of iraq. And why not? iraq is a gold mine if you learn how to develope it... What that again? they ar discusing the NEW IRAQI CONSTITUTION? What does america have to do with drafting another countries constitution... OK i think i spoke to soon since the Philippine constitution smells like american hand writting too  
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