Well put!
Killing icons will not kill Islam. The truth is what sets a man free. Period. Imans have something the politboro members also knew as well .... censorship works, if you can maintain the censor mechanisms.
Kill censorship ... eventually Islam will die.
That is the key to Iraq and the region. What Bush actually says about what the terrorists are mad about in Iraq is TRUE. If we win w/ democracy in Iraq, the censorship ends in Iraq, a short puddle jump from the 'cube' ... and the dagger toward the theology of Islam is slowly driven forward.
Of course, an Implication: the terrorism will grow much, much worse. A cornered rat in its death throes can lash out in a fearsome way....