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And let's be realistic (hmmm, perhaps the word is cynical?): Baker's only getting involved because his buds on various corporate boards and in various lobbying groups are getting antsy.
Hell, they were told they'd have a brand-y-new Iraq to call their financial playground well before now, not a Land of Misfit & Broken People and Dreams, which is a very tame description of what Iraq is. (A state of civil war and a Wild West disaster area are more on target.)
Still, if Baker & Co. can work with the new Democratic leadership post-election to set much-needed time tables and eventually get more of our troops home, so be it. It was economic interests (and Dubya's mano-a-mano issue with Poppy) that got us in this mess, it'll be economic interests that get us out.
