[rintense]

I agree. Iraq was truly the first domino to fall- and the most important. Look at the election concessions in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Once people get a taste of freedom, there is no turning back.

[mitchbert]

Once people get a taste of freedom, there is no turning back.

I'll wager there were an awful lot of middle easterners watching the Iraq election saying "Why can't that be us?"

[lonevoice]

Ping

"I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul."
George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004

"The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way."
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

" We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies."
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

"Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity."
George W. Bush, State of the Union address 2003

"I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again."
George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004