AS THE BRIGHTS USED TO BE SO FOND OF TELLING US...:

Iraqi democracy is Bush's true legacy (Jonathan Kay, 2/01/09, National Post)

On Saturday, Iraq conducted what may stand as the freest, fairest and most genuinely representative democratic elections the Arab world has ever witnessed. Yet even as the votes are being counted, the man responsible for this remarkable political revolution — who believed that Saddam Hussein's hellish dictatorship could be turned into a model Arab democracy, and mobilized the might of the most powerful nation on earth to do something about it — has already become something of a forgotten man.

George W. Bush made many mistakes during his presidency. But with Saturday's peaceful, vigorously contested election in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, his overarching ambition of a robust democracy taking root in the heart of the Middle East seems to have become a reality.

...W was nearly alone in being Stupid enough to believe in a free and democratic Iraq. If it were up to them Saddam would still be brutalizing the Iraqi people.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 1, 2009 4:11 PM