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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (14434)4/13/2004 3:03:14 PM
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A second disagreement I have is with the implicit assumption that the Iraqi people would select democracy as their form of government. I think it's clear that the majority of the Iraqis will prefer whatever form of government that their clerics tell them to prefer. Whatever you want to call that, I call that a theocracy. If you put democracy vs. faith to a vote in Iraq, I pity democracy.

Canyon,
I think the Iraqi people should select the type of government that they want. In effect that would be a democracy even if they choose a theocracy. But let it be of their choosing. My only fear about a theocracy is that if it becomes a hard line institution such as the kind of theocracy they have in Iran, that the people may not be able to effect change at a ballot box once theocracy is chosen.

None the less it's their decision to make. If they choose that kind of government it will be up to them to change it later if things don't work out. Who the hell are we to tell another people how to govern themselves?

After decades of cold war, it appears that the FSU and now even China will find their own way to democracy. No war required.

Nations discover soon enough that it's more advantageous to be a part of the world community. And that a democracy will attract more bright people as well as capital critical for investment and betterment of the people. Saddam discovered that being a bad boy cost him and his people dearly, and that was his conclusion well before the invasion. The sanctions clearly hurt Saddam and the Iraqi people.

So here it is. On June 30th we let Iraq take over. Let them hold elections, and if they choose theocracy so be it. The US if they stay in Iraq should be joined by an international peace keeping force whose job would be to act as a police force for the government of Iraq, as the Iraqi forces take their place on a schedule to be clearly defined.

After the last peace keepers leave, Iraq will be like a glider airplane...now released...to be piloted by the Iraqi people.

Orca
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