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  • U.S. Lowers Sights on What Can be Achieved in Iraq

    08/14/2005 10:32:37 AM PDT · by minerboy · 39 replies · 997+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | August 14, 2005 | Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer
    The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad. The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say. The remains of a bombed barber shop in Baghdad, where three people were killed, draw the interest...