Prior to democracy in Iraq, elections took about 3 minutes. Sadaam got 105% of the vote and his two sons were put in charge. Very neat. Democracy is more messy. People in Iraq need to negotiate power for the first time in their lives. Prior to the election (58% of the population were willing to risk their lives for democracy) if there was one dollar either you would get the dollar or I would get the dollar. Now they have to figure out how to split the dollar. Very different. Look how long it took our founding fathers to creat the constitution and how many fights ensued over it. Why would we expect it to be easy for Iraq. The real question is whether people in Iraq are better off today than they were under Sadaam. In polls over 70% of people in Iraq are optimistic about the future. Someone asked in a previous thread if democracy was worth it. Damn right it is. How many of you would criticize your government if you lived in Iran, China, Syria, Saudi Arabia, or a number of other countries?
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