http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4557891/

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Americans would be greeted as liberators, Bush officials predicted, and
the toppling of Saddam Hussein would spread peace and democracy
throughout the Middle East.

Things have not worked out that way, for the most part. There is
evidence that the economic lives of Iraqis are improving, thanks to an
infusion of U.S. and foreign capital. But the administration badly
underestimated the financial cost of the occupation and seriously
overstated the ease of pacifying Iraq and the warmth of the reception
Iraqis would give the U.S. invaders.