Straw 'mortified' as Rice is relegated to an air bed

[AGENDA21]

JACK Straw has told how he was "mortified" to find that his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice had slept on the floor of her plane after giving up her bed for him.

The Foreign Secretary was on a surprise flight to Iraq with Ms Rice after she visited his Blackburn constituency and Liverpool.

He was clearly tired, and the US Secretary of State offered to let him have a nap in the sofa bed in her personal room/office.

Mr Straw said: "She offered me the use of the sofa bed in her room. I asked if there were proper alternative arrangements available and she said yes. She said she had work to do.

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=518852006

[Orrex]

1. How does Straw feel about 100,000 Iraqi civilians sleeping in the ground?

"Mortified." Oh, please.

[AGENDA21]

3. Good Point!!

[marmar]

2. Awww, neocons showing concern for each other....

My heart is warmed! :loveya:

[flordehinojos]

6. do you really believe his concern?

the guy is a diplomat...he is covering his *ss! If he had really been concerned he wouldn't have accepted the offer. he was looking out for his own sorry self.

[shain from kane]

4. How about a bed of straw?

U.S. and Britain have been sleeping together on this Iraq thing before the war started, so nothing new.

[catabryna]

5. This story sounds familiar...

Didn't Clinton give up his bed for Daddy Bush?

[flordehinojos]

7. yes, he did. and wow! contraalteehhzaahh has now taken a page from the

clinton book and made it her own. she must be wanting to puke once she realizes she copy-catted him!

[Flying Dream Blues]

8. UGH. Big news day. Condi saves baby from onrushing train. Blech.

I guess this kind of story means she's running for SOMETHING.

[boobooday]

9. And there was a pea under that air mattress!

It kept the princess up all night.

[Spazito]

10. ROFL! Perfect post to this story!

:thumbsup:

[Missy M]

11. I hardly think sleeping on an air mattress is sleeping on .....

the floor. Why did they have to take a surprise flight to Iraq. What good is being done by all these politicians visiting Iraq. They don't accomplish a damn thing and the death and destruction continues to get worse.