I see Crooks and Liars posted a video and transcript of Michael Ware discussing the latest "surprise trip" (as if there's any other kind) to Iraq by Secretary of State Rice:
...you could just imagine the umbrella of security that encases someone like the security of state. But i mean going to from the airport which is its own self-contained little bubble. To the green zone which is the ultimate bubble here in Iraq, i mean, U.S. Officials and contractors and all manner of people will come into six to 12 months in Iraq. But never leave the green zone. They don't know even what it's like to walk an Iraqi street. Certainly not without the shroud of heavily-armed American soldiers about them. They don't know what it's like to go to someone's home and sit and talk with them. To shop in the markets. To have blackouts. To not have water. To have the cure for benzene. Secretary rice is so far from that reality that she couldn't possibly hope to understand it. Certainly not from fleeting visits to an artificial bubble like the green zone, Wolf?
Sounds like we're winning, no?
The Times notes additional "victory" fireworks:
Ms. Rice’s visit is her first in about six months and at times reflected reminders of the tense security situation in the country.
The landing of her C-17 airplane was delayed for more than half an hour because mortars went off in the vicinity of the airport. Later, she flew into the city from the airport by helicopter, wearing a helmet and flak vest.
I wonder if there's a place for her to go shoe shopping in the Green Zone...
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Oh, and mostly unrelated, but another link from WIIIAI to the latest Get Your War On...definitely check it out, but here's a sample:
Too bad the writ of habeas corpus wasn't written in 1990! Because then it would be sixteen years old, and people would be scandalized when politicians started fucking with it.
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