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The Iraqi people are not monsters, foreign to us... they are humans, and just as imperfect as we are. Because of this, we must cheer them on, as they struggle along. The stronger their nation, the safer the world will be from the spread of terrorism.

They are not monsters. But they are not like us. It took thousands of years for Locke, Hobbes, and Burke to appear in our civilization and it took hundreds more for their basic tenents to be accepted as truth in Anglo/Celtic/American culture and then even more time to spead them to all of Europe and Russia. But they do accept these Western ways. Islam does not. And it has nothing to do with what the Vatican says or had said This is up to you!

I don't expect Iraq to have found their Founding Fathers, today, let alone Burke and Locke.

My wish is that they find democracy. The people of Iran want democracy. The people of Zimbabwe want Mugabe ousted. The people of Liberia want Taylor's head on a pike.

The cry for freedom is what I watch for, wherever it may be. Humanity needs freedom.

And, I've never listened to the Vatican's pronouncements.