From the New York Times, 25 April 05
"Rice and Cheney Are Said to Push Iraqi Politicians on Stalemate"
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 24 - Worried about a political deadlock in Iraq and a spike in mayhem from an emboldened insurgency, the Bush administration has pressed Iraqi leaders in recent days to end their stalemate over forming a new government, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney personally exhorting top Kurdish and Shiite politicians to come together.
Photograph caption: Vice President Cheney pictured in the foreground waterboarding longtime Kurdish leader and Iraqi president Jalal Talabani. In the background Secretary Rice, leading a naked Ibrahim Jafari about on all fours by a leash, is apparently attempting to teach Iraq's democratically-elected prime minister to heel.
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