Has anyone heard anything about an anonymous white house email?

[mnmoderatedem]

Heard a blurb on talk radio yesterday about an anonymous (and as such will probably be discredited as a hoax by the pro war crowd) by someone supposedly high up in the bush camp, apparantly saying something to the effect that we really should not expect true democracy in Iraq and it really will not happen, and we should lower our expectations along those lines. Something to that effect; I really didn't get the whole gist of it.

Anyone know anything of this? Is there text of it anywhere?

Thanks!

[GOPisEvil]

1. It was reported in the Washington Post.

You might try there. I think it was Sunday's edition.

[papau]

2. U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq - link below

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300853.html?sub=AR

U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
Administration Is Shedding 'Unreality' That Dominated Invasion, Official Says

By Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 14, 2005; A01



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.

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."<snip>

Barbers post signs saying they do not shave men, after months of barbers being killed by religious extremists. Ethnic or religious-based militias police the northern and southern portions of Iraq. Analysts estimate that in the whole of Iraq, unemployment is 50 percent to 65 percent.<snip>

"We didn't calculate the depths of feeling in both the Kurdish and Shiite communities for a winner-take-all attitude," said Judith S. Yaphe, a former CIA Iraq analyst at the National Defense University.
<snip>
Washington now does not expect to fully defeat the insurgency before departing, but instead to diminish it, officials and analysts said. There is also growing talk of turning over security responsibilities to the Iraqi forces even if they are not fully up to original U.S. expectations, in part because they have local legitimacy that U.S. troops often do not.
<snip>
Pentagon officials originally envisioned Iraq's oil revenue paying many post-invasion expenses. But Iraq, ranked among world leaders behind Saudi Arabia in proven oil reserves, is incapable of producing enough refined fuel amid a car-buying boom that has put an estimated 1 million more vehicles on the road after the invasion. Lines for subsidized cheap gas stretch for miles every day in Baghdad.

Oil production is estimated at 2.22 million barrels a day, short of the goal of 2.5 million. Iraq's pre-war high was 2.67 million barrels a day.
<snip>

Knickmeyer reported from Baghdad.

[mnmoderatedem]

3. Awesome

just what I was looking for. Thanks!