WASHINGTON: With 14 months to go for the Bush administration, it is worried what it has yet achieved on the civilian nuclear deal with India and some other key issues such as Palestinian-Israeli track. "I am not worried about my legacy.

With 14 months to go, I'm worrying about what we've yet achieved on the Palestinian-Israeli track ... with the North Korean nuclear issue, with the India civil-nuclear deal, trade agreements and we've got a big agenda," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview, text of which was released by the State Department. "... I'm proud that we overthrew Saddam Hussein. I'll just be very clear with you.

I don't consider it an issue of legacy. I consider it an issue of having done the right thing. "And because I know that big historical changes take time to play out, I'm quite confident that today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. So for me, the issue is what do we do to help put Iran -- or Iraq into a sustainable position from the point of view of American policy," Rice said.

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