Freeance

As Rummy & Condi sneak into Baghdad unannounced and then proclaim it amazing progress, even the Iraqis see through the shinola better than our News Networks who call them "Surprise Visits" as if it's this incredibly awesome gift they are giving.

Look there are good "surprises" and bad "surprises".

A good surprise, when you come home and Halle Berry is waiting for you.

A bad surprise, she's brought Billy Joel with her and they argue about who is taking you out for a drive.

Rummy & Condi are definitely in the latter category.

"We didn't invite them," said Kamal Saadi, a Shiite legislator close to the new prime minister-designate, Nouri Maliki...

..."It would be more appropriate if they would leave us alone," said Mahmoud Othman, a senior Kurdish legislator. "Let us solve our problems by ourselves."

"Enough is enough," said Sheik Mahmoud Sudani, a politician affiliated with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr. "Rice's trip to Iraq at this critical time is just another desperate move by the Americans to try to impose themselves on our new government. But they have lost their influence."