US National Security Adviser Steven Hadley, trying to explain why George Bush will meet the Iraqi PM next week in Jordan, and not right next door in the apparently too dangerous Green Zone --
Q Why not in the United States, or why a third country? And how long?
MR. HADLEY: The President is going to be in the region anyway; this will come at the end of his trip to Riga, for the NATO summit. It seemed, therefore, a good opportunity to do it. Coming to Jordan makes a lot of sense. Jordan has been very helpful and supportive of the unity government in Iraq, so that made it a particularly good venue. It was a venue, obviously, the President could reach easily, since he was in the region, and a venue that the Prime Minister could reach easily since it's next door.
Got that? -- Latvia and Jordan are in the same region.
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