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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Comments about Iraq January 28, 06 In an interview with the Reuters news agency January 26 One of the lessons of democracy is that just because you are in the majority doesn't mean that you can rule simply by majority; you have to, if you're going to have a stable political system, reach out and bring in the interests of minorities. And I see Iraqis who have internalized this principle better than I would have thought possible in a political system that's not that mature. So you see Kurds talking to Shia, and Shia talking to Sunni, and Sunnis talking to Kurds, and Turkomen and Assyrians and others being involved as well, because they have in their constitution a framework for the resolution of differences that would protect minority rights, that would protect the ability of those who can always be outvoted at the polls because they don't have the numbers, but who need to be included in order for the government to be stable. And that's the process that Zal Khalilzad is supporting. MS. PLEMING: Reconstruction in Iraq has not produced the results that the US Government necessarily hoped for. The oil exports are at about 1 million barrels a day, which is below prewar levels, and just yesterday two Iraqi pipelines were blown up. And this is the money that was meant to help rebuild Iraq along with the $22 billion that the US has put into it. How are you going to turn the corner here, do you think, in giving reconstruction a big push so that Iraqis on the ground can really see that their lives are changing for the better? SECRETARY RICE: Well, first of all, many of the reconstruction projects have made a tremendous difference. I think that if we underestimated anything, we underestimated the decrepit nature of the infrastructure; and it has taken a lot of resources just to keep the infrastructure going. We've made some improvements to it as well, but an awful lot has had to go into simply maintaining and running an infrastructure that is many, many years past its prime because Saddam Hussein did not make investments in that infrastructure. It is true that the oil production and export has been down in recent weeks. This is not the history of the entire period that we've been there; in fact, oil exports were above prewar levels for a significant portion of time. But there have been -- they've been subject -- as you said, the pipelines and other infrastructure have been subject to attacks as I think the insurgents have tried to target the infrastructure. Because they're having more trouble targeting the political process, I think they do hope that targeting the infrastructure will weaken the political process. And we are looking hard at what more we and particularly the Iraqis can do to strengthen security on the infrastructure. The other thing that we've done is that while the initial design of the infrastructure program had been for large infrastructure projects, we have done some of those and will continue to do some of those, but we've also taken a good deal of the money and reprogrammed it to smaller projects in a more localized environment. And those, I think, have been quite successful -- a water sewage plant here or a local infrastructure project there. It's been a part of also the process by which as the Iraqi -- as we've been able to clear certain areas, particularly in the Sunnis areas, of insurgents and then have Iraqi forces that are sufficient to hold those areas, to then go in and build projects in those areas. So there's been an adjustment in our philosophy of reconstruction as well back toward more local projects that, frankly, have a more immediate impact on people's lives. ----

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