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April 24, 2006

On the 'New' Iraqi Prime Minister

...from Mash.

We have brought democracy to the Middle East. We have handed over Iraq to an Iranian nurtured and funded Islamist alliance (Dawa and SCIRI). I do not believe this is what the American people bargained for when we embarked on the invasion of Iraq. If we are holding out the hope that these Islamist parties whose stated goal is to bring about an Islamist revolution in Iraq will somehow smell the sweet scent of Democracy and become torchbearers of freedom and liberty, we are likely to be as disappointed as Dick Cheney was when we were not greeted as liberators. This is a far cry from the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction and the defeat of al Qaeda.

Posted by tree hugging sister at April 24, 2006 10:23 AM

Comments

Clear as Mud. Not saying either is right/wrong, just a wide spectrum of views on the events. I know where NRO is coming form, side wise, but as this was the first bit by Mash I had read, don't know what angle he comes from. Haven't studied the new PM enough myself to deecide yet.

Posted by: Crusader at April 24, 2006 11:46 AM

Mash's piece was so close to how I felt when they dumped the women's rights section out of the constitutional draft, I was almost giddy. I think the administration has been so desperate to 'make the deal, any deal', that all their happy rhetoric about those very freedoms promised when they went into Iraq have very little to do with the reality of what is shaping up. Our armed forces are accomplishing brave and wonderful things, while the politicians hand the future of Iraq as a secular state away.

Break out the burqa time...? God, I hope not.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 24, 2006 11:58 AM

What is with this worship of pure Democracy? America is a Republic with a bicameral legislature and three fairly co-equal branches of government for exactly this reason - to keep extremist groups from controlling things. Why are we exporting European-style parliamentary democracy when we see how well that worked for the Weimar Republic (not to mention the current state of affairs, but the Weimars had a real, honest-to-God exremist threat)? Did these clowns in State not study the Federalist Papers? WTF, over?

Posted by: John at April 24, 2006 01:02 PM

And thank YOU, John! Beautifully put.

But I don't think we're 'exporting' much of anything now, even though we've conveniently forgotten we've bought and paid for that snakepit. F*ck the parlimentary BS ~ it leads to nothing but gridlock, coercion and instability.

Oh, wait. We've got THAT already.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 24, 2006 01:21 PM

But a parliament will institutionalize it.

Posted by: John at April 24, 2006 01:30 PM

Aw 'cmon, John. Look how great the parliamentaryt system works in France.

And Italy...

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 24, 2006 02:14 PM

And Israel.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 24, 2006 02:18 PM