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Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq. News of her arrival in Baghdad quickly spread through the city, where sandstorms swirled late in the day. Residents near the Green Zone heard at least one explosion in the vicinity of the compound, which has been bombed repeatedly by Mahdi Army fighters since the crisis began. Rice, who was traveling in the Middle East to attend regional conferences, told reporters she came to Iraq because she wanted to highlight what she described as political progress made by the Iraqi government towards reconciling the country's violently...
Good idea: but then Hamas blew up the border wall between Gaza and Egypt, making themselves, not Abbas or Israel, real liberators in the eyes of many Arabs and Palestinians, and making a paper-only deal seem like just that. Though Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continues to work the issue ahead of Bush's trip to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary in mid-May, even White House spokesperson Dana Perino admits, "We have a hell of a lot of work...
...from Damascus in key areas of U.S. concern. Specter said he had been told by King Abdullah of Jordan that "the item that is most on the mind of President Bashar Assad is the action of the international tribunal which could lead to his indictment." But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice quickly slapped down Specter's proposal: "I don't think that it would be appropriate to suggest that we might be willing to limit the scope of this tribunal on the assassination of Rafik Hariri ... because it might somehow implicate either the regime or the Assad family," she said...
...along with Bush's efforts to squeeze the North into submission through economic sanctions. Lee's foreign-policy outlook is much more closely aligned with that of the Bush Administration. Indeed, the two countries seem to be taking pains to present a united front. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in March stood shoulder to shoulder with Lee's Foreign Minister Yu Myung Hwan in Seoul while Yu said that "time and patience is running out" on Pyongyang's foot-dragging...
...responding to calls to shut them down. Hill, only five months into his post, wanted to bring the North back to the table, but the Bush Administration had a policy of not meeting one-on-one with Kim Jong Il's government, so Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed Hill could meet with his North Korean counterpart only if the Chinese were there. When the Chinese didn't arrive to host the dinner in the ornate dining room of the St. Regis Beijing, Hill made the decision to go ahead anyway. That day North Korea came aboard, and two weeks...