Yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Condoleezza Rice said:
And sitting here today in Jerusalem, I can tell you, George, that this region is far better for it. And we now really have a chance to build a different kind of Middle East with a different Iraq in the center of it, with potentially a Palestinian state that is democratic and with changes taking place all over this region that are democratizing, that will be more stabilizing and that will bring greater security to the American people. Saddam Hussein is gone, and that's a good thing.
Here is the full transcript