(Bolton, Lugar, Coleman laugh) Condi Plays While The Middle East Burns...

[ProSense]

Condi Plays While The Middle East Burns...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took a day off from her bid to untangle the Middle East crisis, but fallout from the fighting trailed her to an East Asia security summit.

Rice flew all night from Europe to Malaysia to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum (ARF), after a crisis conference in Rome and visits to Beirut and Jerusalem.

Read entire story here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/07/27/condi-plays-while-the-mid_n_25938.html

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As staffers grabbed trash pails to catch the downpour, the leak brought levity to an otherwise tense give-and-take.

But when Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., began digging at Bolton for what he saw as U.S. failures with North Korea, the laughs were over.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/15138656.htm

[partylessinOhio]

1. This is the world today.

So many people out of touch with reality.

Their lives go on, they laugh, they play, they chit chat like there are no bunker buster bombs dropping, people aren't dying, people aren't wounded, people aren't running for four hours after giving birth to a son, people aren't without food and water ...