Visit surprised of Condoleezza Rice in Iraq
ERBIL (Iraq) - the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid Sunday morning a visit surprised in Iraq while going in the Kurdish city of Erbil (northern), noted a journalist of AFP.
Mrs. Rice had arrived on board a military apparatus C-17 of Qatar. Its voyage in Iraq, a country devastated by violences was kept secret and only some collaborators were informed.
SALADHIN, Iraq (AP) -- Secretary of State of Condolezza is making a surprise visit to Iraq to support a new national government.
Right on.
Hmm, I guess Condi didn't go to parts of Baghdad where, according to last week, in CNN's interviews with various inhabitants, life was barely survivable, worse than under Saddam. Saddam at least assured them of predictable power outages, twice a day for two hours. Now they have power out for hours any old time day or night. Plus a crumbling infrastructure, raw sewage flowing in the streets, the result of years of neglect. The viewer was supposed to infer that this is the result of A. the US backed oil for food catastrophe, B. the Iraq War, take your pick, either one, and C. George Bush.
Nowhere did anyone complain about terrorists murdering US paid workers trying to repair city's infrastructure. Nobody mentioned the daily horror of life under Saddam, missing friends and relatives -- now heaps of bones in mass graves. No, Baghdad's citizens, at least the three interviewed by CNN, were more concerned about having to shop daily for fresh produce, not to mention having to buy ice for the icebox. Life in Baghdad is hard.
Gotta love the Babelfish translation...
When was Condi married?
The Babel Fish is small, yellow, and simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another. When inserted into the ear, its nutrition processes convert sound waves into brain waves, neatly crossing the language divide between any species you should happen to meet whilst travelling in space.
Some say that the evolution of the Babel fish could not have been accidental, and hence that it proves the non-existence of God.
Arthur Dent, a surviving Earthling, commented only 'Eurgh!' when first inserting the fish into his ear canal. It did, however, enable him to understand Vogon Poetry - not, necessarily, a good thing.
"Mrs"?????