turkey and the Straw

Condoleezza Rice has been busy with a "surprise" visit to Iraq the last few days. I love the way they term these visits as "surprises," when the only real surprise is that they are too in fear for their lives to go there in the light of day, despite all of the good news that the administration assures us is coming out of Iraq lately. The funniest part of it all? She is being accompanied by British Foreign Minister Jack Straw in her efforts to meddle with the much-ballyhooed fledgling "democracy" in Iraq.

Yes, that's right.

She brought her own straw man to the freak show.