Iraq: What we fought and died for

Quiddity provides the PowerPoint summary of this article from the Post:

The Bush administration is:

• significantly lowering expectations
  
• shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning

The Bush administration is acknowledging:

• the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned
  
• we will have some form of Islamic republic
  
• they misread the strength of the sentiment among Kurds and Shiites to create a special status
• When we finally depart, it will probably be for us [and not for the Iraqi's]
  
• most damage was from looting [after the invasion][and not Saddam], which took down state industries, large private manufacturing, the national electric" system.

The Bush administration no longer expects:

• a model new democracy
  
• a self-supporting oil industry
  
• a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges
  
• Iraq's oil revenue paying many post-invasion expenses
  
• the ability [of Iraq] to build a robust self-sustaining economy

The Bush administration's goal is:

• a constitution that can be easily amended later so Iraq can grow into a democracy, U.S. officials say.