YES, BUT WILL THEY HAVE THE BAGHDAD BRONCOS?

Metro Denver is playing a large role in helping Baghdad form a new city government, NEWS4 reports.

Joe Rice, who resigned from his position as Glendale, Colo., mayor while serving with the army in Iraq, has been charged with establishing the structure for a new Baghdad city council.

Baghdad's new city government has been modeled after the Denver Regional Council of Governments. (The Denver Regional Council of Governments is a voluntary association of 50 county and municipal governments in the Denver metro area working together to address regional issues.)

Rice was given the task of creating the city council from scratch.

"I was very lucky to be able to reach back to Denver and the people I knew in the municipal government back there and ask them for advice on how to structure the council," Rice said.

The Denver Regional Council's Director Bill Vidal sent advice on how to structure a representative government for Baghdad's 5 million people representing 30 distinct neighborhoods.