Rice Criticizes Leader During Wartime

During an unannounced visit to Iraq the Green Zone, Condoleezza Rice publicly questioned the leadership of interim PM Ibrahim Jafari, citing his inability to form a government “since his nomination on February 11th” 2005.*

You’d better watch what you say, Condoleezza—this sort of negative rhetoric will only embolden others to criticize the US for its inability to find WMD, or even to finish reconstruction projects, since its invasion on March 19th, 2003.

"C’mon, you guys: Forming a government in the midst of civil war should be a cakewalk!”

*The WaPo reports the date of Jafari’s nomination as Feb. 22. Which is it?