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Hardly the greatest piece of journalism I've ever seen. They quote two annonymous officials and refer to a handful of outside experts and that's pretty much the article. It could just as well be titled "At Least Two Administration Officials Think Iraq Will Not Be a Democracy". I'm not saying that the article is incorrect, but the slant they chose is certainly not the best one.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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