Elton Beard at BusyBusyBusy has devoted his site as late to sentence-encapsulations of pieces by authors of the right (and whatever that place is that Tom Friedman is of), making sometimes for cheap shots and other times for biting satire. His summary of this Condoleeza Rice piece is right on the mark: Shorter Condoleezza Rice: We attacked Iraq without provocation in order to transform it into a democracy and so enhance world peace, as countries with elected leaders do not attack other countries without provocation.