(CBS) A lot went right with the just-completed first free elections in Iraq in half a century. ... Overall, Iraqis were brave and determined, and turned out to vote in large, heartening numbers. ... The much maligned, newly trained Iraqi security forces put in charge of basic polling place protection performed far beyond general expectations.... American soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors once again delivered -- big time -- in hundreds of ways, large and small. ... The insurgency failed to pull off a single "spectacular" on Election Day. There was not one cataclysmic event.