Making progress

[From CNN:] Bush: Iraqi democracy making progress; estimates 30,000 Iraqis killed President compares Iraq's struggle to America's founding


Monday, December 12, 2005; Posted: 1:44 p.m. EST (18:44 GMT)

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A fledgling democracy in Iraq will take time to grow but will make the world safer from terrorists, President Bush said Monday while acknowledging more than 30,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion nearly three years ago.
Speaking Monday in the cradle of American democracy, Bush compared Iraq's struggle to the plight of America's founders and said that he still believed the March 2003 invasion was the right course of action.