Isn't it pathetic to hear our politicians bothin the UK and USA screaming for fair and "democratic" elections in Iraq not to be postponed, in order to give them selves some hope of escape from the nightmare they've created.

Given that the numbers of insurgents now fighting in Iraq are believed to outnumber coalition forces, how do they propose to provide security for the polls.
We can expect to see whoesale bombing and shooting of poll queues, although this is never mentioned by our politicains.
Its obvious that our leaders no longer care a damb what happens to the Iraqi people, so long as they can get out with "their integrity intact".

The big joke, or should I say tragedy is, that if these elections do take place and as seems likely the Shi'ites gain overall control, how long will it be before Iraq becomes an Islamic republic and so called democracy consigned to the dustbin of history.

Would we not have been better to let evolution and the Islamic fundamentalists take care of Saddams removal,or was it to stop the formation of an Iraqi Islamic republic that we became involved to begin with?.......Ake