More Iraqis Want Democracy

Newsday Reports on a survey done recently in Iraq. More evidence we're doing the right thing and that fundamentalism/dictatorships are not the only thing people in the Middle East understand. Major points:

Richard Burkholder, director of international polling for Gallup, said the type of government Iraqis preferred was a multiparty democracy like those in many Western European countries.

"Very low down the list is an Islamic theocracy, in which mullahs and religious leaders have a lot of influence, such as in Iran," said Burkholder, who polled in Baghdad in August and nationwide in late March and early April for CNN and USA Today.