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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: A. Geiche who wrote (480324)	10/23/2003 5:03:55 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Is it even possible to install a democracy? What kind of a democracy is imposed, one country on another? That's not democracy, it's imperialism. Can someone give me an example of when this kind of experiment has been successful? Every out break of democracy that I can think of has come from within. An internal struggle, from which each country's brand of democracy was forged. What we are doing in Iraq, is prescribing what the government will be like. But what if this government is not what the Iraqis want? There will be ever growing contempt for the American presence there for sure. That's why I think that it is essential to let the interim Iraqi government take control of the country. And then set a time table for a constitution and free elections. The sooner the better. And the less meddling the better. If the Iraqis decide they want a Sunni religious government, so be it. Democracy spreads by example. By encouraging it externally. Saddam would have never stood a chance of leading Iraq, without the compliance of the other western governments. We support governments that have democracy and human rights. Those that take a different route will see the level of cooperation diminished. Terrorists, with real WMD should be treated without mercy. But Iraq was not part of the war on terror. It is an experiment in inserting a democracy in a country that does not know how to be a democracy. I think the war in Iraq is a mistake. Erasing the mistake is impossible, but it is still possible to salvage what is left by turning the country over to the people. We cannot force their will. We can only encourage their actions externally, by our own actions and interactions. Orca