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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (103860)	7/25/2007 1:03:09 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"If not for insurgents and terrorist Al-Qaeda the Nation of Iraq would have made a relatively smooth transition to liberal democracy." I can't agree. Iraq is 60% Shiites who don't believe in the ideas of a liberal democracy. They believe in Shia law - administered by the mosque, not by a secular government.

To: one_less who wrote (103860)	7/25/2007 2:09:11 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

You seem to recognize their desire for liberty and democracy as a good thing; Of course it is a good thing. It's not something to be forced upon people though. For a long time Monarchy was thought to be the natural order of things (the divine right of kings and all that). You can't just invade a country and tell them how to live. It doesn't work like that: see Iraq for evidence. small radical percentage of Iraqis who are trying to destroy efforts by the majority of Iraqis to build a national democracy. This is pure fantasy. It's not what is happening in Iraq. The majority is not trying to build a national democracy. You can't distinguish between fiction and fact which is why your claims and aspersions are so absurdly ridiculous. Until you abandon this fantasy of yours, you have no hope of ever seeing what's really going on. And you certainly have no business questioning other people's motives. SD