I am sure that many of our friends on the left see this as another rebuke of Bush.  I see it as an over-the-top success.  Iraq is a Democratic country now.  Replete with idiots who make infantile gestures, like throwing a shoe, or a pie in the face.  The moron in question has recieved some bruises while in the care of the Iraqi police.  But how is this different than some whop getting worked over by the mic cops in Chicago back in our early 20th century?

This reporter will probably be a celebrity and show off his scars, while screaming anti-American profanities on the Iraqi version of Oprah.  He will live to be outrageous another day.  Is the U.S. a beautiful country or what?  Recall what would happen to this character if Saddam where in power?  He, his family, his village would all get brutally killed after prolonged torture and rape.

Today, in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt he would be killed or he would just disappear.  The paper he worked for would probably suffer.  His family?  Who knows.  In Iraq, he can act … like an American leftist whacko! 

This freedom is awe inspiring considering where Iraq was just 8 years ago.  This freedom was a gift brought about by Bush.  In this Bush was right, the way to drain the Middle East swamp is to introduce a democratic process.  Democracy is messy, often bare knuckles, and sometimes ugly.  But it beats all the alternatives.  Hopefully the Iraqi experiment in democracy shall not perish from this earth.