I really liked the way this article described yesterday's election in Iraq:

It was historic, it was bloody and - amazingly - the Iraqi election yesterday was more successful than anyone dared hope.

Defiant Iraqis came out in unexpected numbers to vote for their first democratic assembly in half a century. And, in the process, they gave U.S. President George W. Bush the first foreign-policy victory of his second term.

More important, the turnout gave some credence to Bush's claim that if you draw a line from Afghanistan to the Palestinian territories, through Ukraine and into Iraq, a clear new picture emerges. "Freedom is on the march and the world is better for it," he said Friday as he watched his new secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, sworn in.

The remainder of the article goes on highlight the divisions among the Iraqi people and how that complicates the move to Democracy. I agree 100%. The people of that nation must learn how to work together despite their differences...just like the people within every other Democracy do. That is how Democracy works.

Oh, and see the last post if you believe the United States has a unified demographic when compared to that in Iraq.