Real Progress: Condi Style

Well I am sure that we are happy to see the former National Security Advisor, who refused to believe that Al Qaeda posed any real threat to the USA (before 9/11) , is back in the news.

As you will all know she is the current Secretary of State, having replaced Colin Powell, and she is on a whirlwind tour of the Middle East. She has been visiting with our allies and generally talking up the American efforts at building peaceful and successful democracies in their region. Not that we actually have any allies, apart from Israel, that would classify as democracies, successful or otherwise. But she has been doing her best.



She has just been visiting with our democratic allies the Iraqis, and she is happy to report that there has been great progress made despite the efforts of the insurgents, and the worldwide media, to paint anything other that a rosy picture. She says she has great confidence in Mr. Malaki, and has urged him to hurry up and settle the political differences in the government so that they might turn their full attention towards crushing the insurgency. Of course it doesn't help matters when most of the insugency is being financed and run by large portions of that same government...but hey...it's early days.

To take a quote from a New York Times article:

“What the American people see on their television screens is the struggle,” she said. “It is harder to show the political process that is going on at local levels, at provincial levels and indeed at the national level.” Iraqis, she said, are “making progress.”

This Condi quote above was made on 5 Oct, 2006. We believe her...don't we?


The following video was recorded in the summer of 2005.






That's progress for you!!