Mission Accomplished?

When President Bush declared the Iraqi election a success I became very alarmed -- is this a sign that turmoil is on the way? And how does he really know that voters "firmly rejected the antidemocratic ideology" of terrorists. What if some fundamentalist radical is elected president? If that's the case, I guess that wouldn't be all that different from our own political process. But still, we won't know just how much they've embraced democracy until the votes are counted.