Democracy, Iraq Style
"A political coalition led by one of the Iraqi prime minister's fiercest critics temporarily halted its campaign Saturday for next month's parliamentary elections after a number of its candidates were barred from running.
The Iraqi National Movement, led by former Shiite premier Ayad Allawi, suspended campaigning for three days while it attempts to negotiate the return of dozens of its candidates, said spokesman Haydar al-Mulla.
The back-and-forth political wrangling over the ban on more than 450 candidates for the March 7 vote has threatened to undermine Iraq's political stability, worrying U.S. officials that it could throw the credibility of the elections into question and undo security gains."
The "credibility" of the election. That's a laugh, huh?
And once again, let us all give a quiet vote of thanks to George Bush and Dick Cheney, for bringing democracy to the Middle East. I expect to see many other countries over there following the shining example set by our carefully chosen democratic government in Iraq.
And boy, you have to admit that the two trillion dollars we spent to achieve this milestone in good government sure seems like a good investment now.
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Can you hold free elections under military occupation? Does the pope shit in the woods?
Seriously, the horror of what we did to Iraq will take many generations to overcome.To begin to overcome, I should say.
Bush and Cheney had the chance to contribute to their seeing us a different way; instead, they saw to it that none of us will live to see the time when that might be possible.
George Bush had a unique opportunity. The chance to be a statesman, truly world changing policy was within his grasp.The country and much of the world was behind him. Unfortunately he is an empty and small-minded man who chose to allow those with an agenda to direct policy while he pretended to be president.