"Each day the conditions in Iraq are improving, and life is slowly beginning to return to what one might call the normal pre-war standard. There are difficulties, to be sure, but that difficulties exist should not come as a surprise to anyone. No nation has made the transition from tyranny to a civil society -- has been immune to the difficulties and challenges of taking that path. As Thomas Jefferson said after our revolution, 'We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.' "
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Posted by Alan at May 20, 2003 11:32 PM