President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Take a Bow

Bring Out the Champagne! Pop the Corks!
President Bush, you and Vice President Cheney take a bow.
You have earned my appreciation, and you deserves the appreciation of each American, and ultimately the appreciation of all the peoples of the world, western and eastern, for introducing democracy to the Islamic people of Iraq. We applaud you because you had the insight and the courage to see Iraq, not simply as Saddam Hussein's threatening source of mass destruction, but more specifically, because you also saw him and his Iraq as an open door into the Islamic world.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney, thanks to your insight and courage, the Islamic, or Muslim world is currently caught up in the throes of birth pains. Pains associated with their struggle to shake off the weight of their medieval identity and to embrace the twenty-first century as free and democratic institutions.

Thanks