Lofty Goals

I watched President Bush's address tonight from the U.S. Army College. Nice set of goals. No real plan for achieving these goals, but it is a nice set of goals nonetheless. Maybe someday we can get started on some of them here.

For starters:

"The ministry of education, for example, is out of the propaganda business and is now concerned with educating Iraqi children."

"And when they patrol the streets of Baghdad or engage radical militias, they will be fighting for their own country."

"Successful units need to know they are fighting for the future of their own country, not for any occupying power."

"Our coalition has already helped Iraqis to rebuild schools and refurbish hospitals and health clinics, repair bridges, upgrade the electrical grid and modernize the communication system."

"...form an independent election commission that will oversee an orderly accurate national election."

"A representative government that protects basic rights, elected by Iraqis, is the best defense against the return of tyranny. And that election is coming."

Someday.