Why was Karen Hughes in Baghdad?

[SoCalDem]

U.S. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes carries a baby, who was injured in a car bomb attack in Ramadi, in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, February 17, 2007.The attack killed both the boy’s parents, but he and his 5-year-old sister survived the attack and they are both being treated at the Combat Army Support Hospital (CASH) in Baghdad’s Green Zone REUTERS/U.S. Embassy/Handout (IRAQ)
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Feb 17 11:49 PM

[uppityperson]

1. Oh, isn't that just special.

what a bunch of crap. Nice that a couple kids are getting help, but what a bunch of propagandish "we care" bs.

[babylonsister]

2. Because they don't know what to do with her and she's basically useless

so they throw her over there to promote photo ops such as this? :shrug:
Do I win anything?;)

[rodeodance]

11. using tax $$$$ damit

[Supersedeas]

17. looking desperately for a photo-op to justify her tax payer funded salary

[youngdem]

3. Right after this photo, she ATE the baby. True story.

[AndyA]

4. That poor baby! First the injury in the car bomb attack, and now THIS!

To be that close to such an evil woman. The memory of the car bomb will diminish over the years, but the evil touch of that woman will haunt them until the day they die.

Go home, Karen. You big horse(ass).

[cmd]

5. Aren't you proud of yourself, Karen?

Those injuries are your fault. Yours and every other supporter of the war. Hope you are pleased.

[thereismore]

9. Well said. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

6. She's just improving the 'image' of America. See, she's not biting the infant's head off!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. Camel mating season?

[mmonk]

8. She's there to scare off the insurgency.

Nobody's buying her public diplomacy.

[Parche]

15. Karen Hughes

Hey, I was going to say that!!!!!!! :rofl:

Karen Hughes could scare the armor off of a Humvee......................

[mmonk]

20. So that's why

the Humvees were poorly protected.

[opihimoimoi]

10. She represents Bush the BABY KILLER...in this case...he got the Parents...

I know...its them insurgements ...but if George had not gone to Iraq...all this crap would not be going on...

[leftofthedial]

12. someone there needed to be insulted

I suppose

[StClone]

13. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

I think this could be considered under her current position. But the Bush Administration has people freely moving about doing many things outside the proscribed mandate and aegis of their elected or selected position.

[Bonhomme Richard]

14. Why do I get the image of a Fraulein holding a jewish......

baby for the red cross cameras in 1942?

[Mandate My Ass]

16. Why is that crack ho SMILING?????

As if she is posing with a healthy baby at a birthday party or something. Look at the wounds on that child orphan's face and head.

There is NOTHING to smile about here!

[spanone]

18. so much evil irony in that picture. disgusting.

[onager]

19. Just keep her out of Egypt

I've been here nearly 2 years, and anti-Americanism always ratchets way up when Bigfoot comes galumphing around the Middle East.

She's probably crossed Egypt off her visiting list, anyway. The last time she dropped by Cairo, a group of female Egyptian journalists red-assed her mercilessly. In public.

Photos in the local Egyptian press caught Hughes with that gawping "how dare you!" look on her face, as the Egyptian women dared to question her lame canned speech about truth, democracy and the War On Terriers.

Hughes really lost her audience when she went into a tirade about the importance of obeying your local intelligence services.

Either she had a bad translator, or she was totally oblivious to local culture. I'm betting on the second option.

Over here, "intellgence services" does not conjure up images of James Bond. It translates as: "people who knock down your door in the middle of the night and disappear your relatives."

Even my Egyptian co-workers joke turning me over to the Intelligence Services, using exactly that term.

At least I HOPE they're joking.