BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 — Wearing a helmet and a flak jacket and flanked by machine-gun-toting bodyguards to defend against insurgents, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came here Thursday, insisting that there were new signs of progress in Iraq and that the Bush administration had never sugarcoated its news about the American occupation.

Of course they could have mentioned that she was only wearing the helmet to protect her spectacular 'do, but that wouldn't fit in with their insidious liberal bias, would it?

Rice, in Baghdad, Insists That Iraqis Are 'Making Progress' [NYT]

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