Interesting comments from Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, in which he is not backpedaling from the need to reduce U.S. forces in the Middle East, and turn over the government to Iraqis

For the United States in a postwar Middle East, he said, "It does seem to me there is an opportunity now to demonstrate that we are who we say we are, and we come as liberators and not as occupiers."

Per Thomas Friedman, I would like to see the U.S. live up to its promises in this adventure, so people will look back and say in retrospect "you did good" (even if Haliburton, Kellog, Brown & Root, The Carlyle Group, et al made a fortune in the process.) And I think that no matter how cynical some may be about the intents of the Iraq war, the circumstances warrant extremely careful behavior by the Bush administration, to try to disprove all the criticisms, and in the end, it is the results not the intentions that count.

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