Condoleezza Rice makes surprise visit to Baghdad, praises progress in Iraq

AP:

BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that Iraq's national reconciliation has moved along "quite remarkably," citing a new law that lets thousands of former members of Saddam
Hussein's Baath party reclaim government jobs or pensions.

"It is clearly a step forward for national reconciliation — a step forward for healing the wounds of the past, and it will have to be followed up by implementation that is in the same spirit of national reconciliation," she said during a news conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.