Freedom is on the march???

A frequent refrain of George W Bush with respect to the quagmire in Iraq is that "freedom is on the march." While it is easy to tout the historic nature of free and fair elections in a country like Iraq, we need to ask ourselves, who is being elected there? One doesn't have to look very closely at the Iraq election results to see that Iraq is on its way to creating a freely elected theocracy based on Shi'a Islam. The only major secular movement in Iraq is a very distant 3rd place in parliamentary seats.
Is this what George W Bush had in mind when he celebrated the free and fair elections in Iraq? The creation of a new Islamic theocracy in the middle east? Did George W Bush ever think what might happen if the Iraqi people elected their Ayatollahs to public office?
The American people and the world need to realize that freedom, in the Western sense, cannot exist without secularism and liberalism. The day a majority of people in Iraq stop believing in the Koran or at least cease viewing it as the inerrant word of a fantasy God/Allah is the day freedom might take hold in that country. The day someone can stand on the streets of Bagdad and ridicule or satirize the Koran and Islamic beliefs without being stoned to death or threatened with violence is the day freedom can truly take hold in Iraq.
America needs to take heed of its own turn towards religious fundamentalism before we regress from our powerful state into a frightening existence under our own Christian Ayatollahs like Pat Robertson and James Dobson. The Bible is no better than the Koran for running a government.