<<Another Country in the Middle East is practicing peaceful Democracy.>>
Unh-hunh... Just like Iran and Gaza. It remains to be seen just who won what in this election. But we do know that the theocratic Shias, who have close cultural, religious and political ties to Iran, will have their "democratic" decisions subject to veto by their ayatollahs. And we know that Sunni "democratic" cooperation depends largely on our bribes. And that the Kurds mostly want little to do with the rest of Iraq, "democratic" or not. And, of course, we know that non-Shi'ite/Sunni/Kurd minorities -- especially the once-large and powerful Christian minority, which did very well under Saddam --- will "win" absolutely nothing, seeing as how they no longer exist in Iraq thanks to our invasion and the resulting ethnic cleansing of "infidels" by our "allies". The point, Lew, is that Iraq ain't America, there is a lot more to "democracy" than an election, and their ethnic differences and loyalties are not just skin-deep like ours (that is, you're not likely to see the Sunni/Shia equivalent of millions of white Americans voting for a black guy and, even if to a much lesser extent, vice-versa). But even more than that, Lew, if Iraq (or any other country) was to find its way to this or even true western-style "democracy", it was their business to do it. Not ours to waste nearly 50,000 American dead or seriously wounded and perhaps several trillion dollars doing it, Especially when we were lied into this war on the basis that they had attacked us on 9/11 and were about to nuke us, and that the war would be cheap, easy and over in a matter of months! ======================================================================= On Feb 1, 3:21 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S I-R-A-Q !!! > > Also Congratulations : > > General David Petraieus > > AND > > President George W. Bush > > It is just a great thing America had better sense than to listen to > Harry Reid's and Barack Obama's urgings for more mayhem, and more U.S. > troop injuries and kilings. > > NOW: > > Another Country in the Middle East is practicing peaceful Democracy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
