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...last-ditch effort to galvanize Iraqi pols, Rice and Straw traveled to Baghdad together over the weekend in the hopes that their combined clout would make an impact where individual visits, calls and messages through envoys had failed. To keep their mission secret, they waited until well after dark Saturday to take off from Liverpool, where Straw had been showing Rice around his constituency. They used Rice?s 757 and, knowing that Straw was suffering from a lingering bronchial infection, she insisted he sleep on the pull-out bed in her cabin. To his embarrassment, Straw learned only the next...
Acting Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari doesn?t fit the bill, as far as she and Straw are concerned, because he has been unable to pull together a coalition government so far, and they don?t think his odds are improving. Though they insisted in public they weren?t meddling in internal Iraqi politics, they are known to have told Jaafari bluntly in private that the numbers were against...
...didn?t bow out by the time Rice and Straw had to depart, and there is no certainty he will anytime soon. So there were no breakthroughs to announce. When asked if the Iraqi pols had gotten the message, Rice said, ?Yeah. Well, I had a very strong sense that the message was indeed getting through. I don't think that the Iraqi leaders were unaware of the importance of getting this government formed...
...Straw also expressed hope that the frank discussions stir the Iraqis to action. But, he acknowledged, he had enjoyed this feeling before, and it had passed...
...likely that Rice and Straw will have to deploy their diplomatic skills many times before Iraq has it their...