Iraq's Transition to a Constitutional Government

In January 2005 you have the first set of elections in Iraq. The primary political circumstance that they were dealing with was just that the violence was getting worse. Condie as we'll get into and as we've mentioned before was fiercely defensive of the president at any given moment. She was a writer die and so putting her in the position of Secretary of State was probably a no brainer after Powell had frankly outlived his usefulness having given the UN speech.