Oh, that is droll... :-)

What short memories people have.

Yup. I can definitely say "puppet government". It's a familiar scenario.

I would say that people in Iraq are in peril regardless of what they did. If they voted, they're in peril from one set of people. If they didn't they're in peril from the other set. Just like it was in Vietnam. The vote, in any case, is a rubber stamp for a puppet government, imposed by an invading foreign power, with an "election" as a Pr exercise.

Who do you think okays who gets to run in such an election? Who do you think decides who gets the funding and media coverage to win a seat? Who do you think controls the whole business afterward?

The occupying foreign invaders, that's who.   Dead simple and dead obvious. And lots more dead Iraqis and young American soldiers too.