I have to commend Sue Pleming, the writer of this Reuter's piece for her wit:
"More and more Iraqis are seeing their future in politics and not in violence," [Rice] said.
Rice and a small group of senior state department officials arrived in Mosul wearing body armor and helmets and flew from the airport in heavily armed helicopters.
From this story "U.S. Secretary of State makes surprise visit to Iraq."
It's so safe to travel to Iraq that our senior officials never announce that they're heading over there.
Sadly, Condi was unable to serve a plastic turkey to the troops. Although there is still a real live one in the Oval Office.