I'm betting that before the end of this week, we'll be seeing reports of Bush lauding the Secretary of State, saying "Condi, you're doing a heck of a job." Sort of like with "Brownie" of FEMA. (emphasis added)
BAGHDAD: "Slim chance of finding an Arabic speaker at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Of the 1,000 U.S. employees at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, only 10 have a working knowledge of Arabic, according to the State Department. " (ABC)
SEATTLE: "more than 110,000 backlogged [Passport] applications are piled in closets, the supervisor's office and the break room. Many won't be touched for months. Half of the staff is trying to help the crowds jamming the lobby and spilling out the door.
Federal officials in Washington acknowledge that they failed to anticipate just how much the post-Sept. 11 travel regulations would fuel demand for passport"
(LA Times)GAAZA: "America and its Middle Eastern allies have every reason to panic. The green flags of Hamas are furling over Gaza and the al-Fatah forces trained and financed by the United States have ignominiously fled. Fears are rife that Iranian-backed and Syrian-hosted terror will next achieve dominance over the West Bank and proceed to undermine the pro-Western governments of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf." (Wall Street Journal)
Iraq: "142 persons were killed or found dead on Tuesday, and Wednesday morning two Sunni mosques in towns south of Baghdad were blown up"
(Juan Cole)MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia has begun delivering five MiG-31E interceptors to Syria as part of an agreement concluded earlier this year, the Kommersant daily newspaper reported Tuesday. (AFP)
TEHRAN (AFP) - Russia on Wednesday bluntly told the United States it saw no threat from Iran's ballistic missiles and was perplexed how Washington could use this to justify a planned US defence system in Europe. (AFP)KABUL: Afghanistan's surging violence left three Canadian soldiers and 21 suspected Taliban militants dead Wednesday, while insurgents grabbed control of another district headquarters in the south. (AP)
Can anyone tell me of a single accomplishment that could be credited to Condi?
There's a Presidential Medal of Freedom just waiting for her.
(h/t memeorandum)
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