And that differs from handing democracy over to people stuck in the 19th Century who shoot guns straight up into the air, smash beer cans over their heads and subscribe to a barbaric bastardization of a religion that demands they burn crosses in people's yards to express their feelings about skin color and blame Joos for killing their savior thousands of years ago... in spite of the fact that if He hadn't died for them, they couldn't be saved.
Yet Mississippi and Alabama still have functional representative governments today...
...Precisely because the wackjobs are in the minority, just as the wingnuts in Iraq are in the minority... a few thousand amid 25 million regular people who just want to feed their families and study and work. There are muslims of many types, atheists and Christians in Iraq. They are not all, nor even most, Taliban types.
They will have a chance to be free - it is up to them, once given the chance, to keep it. And at that time they and the world will have only Iraqis to blame if they cannot.