Pelosi snubbed in Iraq


	Pelosi snubbed in Iraq

n2sooners

5-18-2008 12:01 AM

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pelosi, iraq, war on terror, baghdad, politics, millitary

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5-20-2008 7:10 PM

BobbyRutan

Great article ! I especially liked this part that was conveniently omitted. Ha ha ha ha!

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But for all of Pelosi's unpopularity, in many ways she got a nicer arrival treatment than the last senior female American official to appear in Baghdad, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice slipped into Iraq in January much the same way Pelosi did today — stealthily, with a terse confirmation by the U.S. embassy offering few details of the agenda. But within hours of Rice's arrival, TV news was crackling with word of it, and soon thereafter a volley of mortars fell on the Green Zone in an obvious message from Rice's detractors. No rockets or mortars were heard heading into...

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