Absolutely! Prior to Saddam's overthrow, the Bush administration had extensive meetings with Iraqi resistance elements, not only to determine what level of support there would be for a U.S.-led multinational invasion but also to get a sense of what would be possible under a post-Saddam democratic Iraq. There are many highly-educated Iraqis who hold the same values of freedom and democracy as does the rest of the West and free world, and these brave people, for the first time in their lives and the first time in Iraq's history, are able to exercise these values in the public square.
Despite what the Left / Dems / MSM tell us, we are living in a glorious, magical time that will echo through eternity. Iraq will serve as the first domino of freedom and justice in the Arab and Middle Eastern chain, which is why the despotic rulers of other regimes are utterly terrified of these elections and will do anything in their power to interfere. If we and our new Iraqi friends will have the courage to stay the course, Iraq will serve as a bright beacon of hope to the rest of the downtrodden and oppressed Middle East. When people who are gasping under the iron bootheel of Islamofascist oppression see happy, free people just over the border, they are not going to put up with their own suffering for long.
Amen to that. What exciting times!