“There’s a growing confidence that this democracy is going to work,"

said U.S. Army Col. Larry Saunders, senior advisor to the Vice Deputy of Training for the Iraq Ministry of Interior. "There’s a great appreciation amongst those whom actually make the decisions for what the west brings them in terms of furthering democracy,” Saunders told the DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable with Chuck Simmins of America's North Shore Journal and Jarred Fishman of the Air Force Pundit.