Beware, Jack, there's steel in her heart
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1744964,00.html
Once more there is talk of WMDs and regime change. Once again Britain
is embroiled. But this US Secretary of State is clearly no dove
Mary Riddell
Sunday April 2, 2006
The Observer
Phase two of the Jack and Condi lifeswap looked like a slightly awkward
fifth-form French exchange trip. It could have been a lot worse,
obviously. Imagine Juventus beating Arsenal 2-0 in the Champions League
this week, and you get an idea of how the second leg of a fixture can
unravel. Hecklers apart, the Foreign Secretary will be telling himself
that Dr Rice's Blackburn odyssey passed off pretty well.
From the sidelines, the say-hi-to-my-folks visit resembled an excerpt
from Meet The Parents, the romantic comedy of oddly assorted families
that George W Bush once screened at Camp David for the Blairs. Or its
sequel, Meet the Fockers, another presidential pick. Naturally, the
Straw and Rice love-in, rooted in politics and football, is purely
professional. It would be fair, however, to think Straw a little
infatuated, both by the US Secretary of State and her back story.
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