Now that Iraq has held what is widely percieved to be successful nationwide elections, is it time for the critics of George W. Bush to admit that Iraq has turned out to be a success? This article by columnist Ivan Rioufol of France’s Le Figaro argues that without the much-derided former president and his neoconservative allies, there would be no democracy in Iraq.
For Le Figaro, Ivan Rioufol writes in part:
Will history finally give its due to George W. Bush? Launched seven years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it is indeed his policy of democratizing Iraq that is asserting itself – election after election and despite serious initial strategic errors. … But generally speaking, the media are taking care not to recall the paternity of this success, which contradicts their sheep-like and anti-Bushist analyses.
The followers of “soft-power,” those new Munichites [appeasers] who have the upper hand in France, remain ready to temporize in the face of the new “Islamo-Fascism,” a designation of Bush and the neoconservatives. If the “anti-warriors” had been followed, there would be no democracy in Iraq.
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