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The chinese authorities slaughtered them -- if the regime is sufficiently brutal, this kind of power doesn't work. you have to give mubarak and the egyptian army a lot of credit that they weren't willing to shed the blood of their own people. >> you see the white house today urging the young in iran for example to perhaps contemplate some mass protests, in iran, they could come down very hard and kill a lot of people when they do protest. so it seems that the american administration is moving away from steaming in with tank and soldiers to saying, let's let the people do this. >> piers, we did...

And secretary clinton, secretary gates, they struck a positive balance, but on the side of democracy and the protesters and i believe that we have a lot of work to do in the days ahead, but i'm confident that the new egyptian government with a strong military being a moderate force, can create a democracy movement, can create free and fair elections, lift the state of emergency, create new nonislamic parties and be ready for a transformative election, which they haven't had in years and it's been a dictatorship for the last 30. >> ambassador you were involve in a very different kind of regime ...

With the issues of freedom, to deal with the issues of political prisoners, to give people time to form parties but makes it clear that there's going to be elections. i think the momentum for change the large. >> when you compare that's what happeneded here to what pd in iraq, you don't think with the benefit of hindsight that the kind of devastation we saw in the aftermath of the iraq war could possibly have been avoided if we had let the people of iraq do what the people of egypt have done. >> we encouraged the people of iraq to stand up against saddam and he slaughtered tens of thousands of...

Need development. so there's going to be a lot of work ahead regardless of the joy we can feel coming from tahrir square and across egypt. >> and there's going to be lots of tough roads ahead, tough days, tough weeks, but for now, you and your family, go and celebrate. what a night for you. i'm going to go now to egypt's young journalist sarah sagani. you must be feeling pretty weird tonight. you've got your dream, it's come true, mubarak is gone, a day you perhaps never thought would happen, sarah. how excited are you? what are you feeling? >> i spent a few moments, a few minutes in disbelief...

Terror, we have always thought for this region to become a normal region, an element has to be the democratization of the middle east. there's a lot of work ahead that this opportunity is transformed into the reality of a truly democratic order being established, going through a good transition and then through a good election in which there is a level playing field. there's a lot of risks ahead. but i think this is a good night and a promising beginning, a new beginning for egypt. >> ambassador richardson, the problem with seeing these jub lach jubilant scenes, other parts of region are celeb...