Is Iraq moving toward being a Democracy?

Question

Story by Eugene Robinson, The Washing Post Writers Group,

"Short of actual Resurrection, I don't think the country could have spoken more clearly than it did last Tuesday. Since the election the President has been been saying all the right things about bipartisanship, and about how eager he is to work with the new democratic Leadership. But what choice does he have after a electoral "thumpin"."
My Words follow. He claims to have heard voters, the question remains. Did he really understand what voters said? I think he does not understand what voters said. Nor does his Administration.
Democrats should make a trade, fire the first shot. We give you confirmation of Robert Gates as the new defense secretary and you give us a date certain to end the occupation of Iraq.
The President and the current Administration has shown it's cards. Bush will not except a plan of phased withdrawal. Bush has said his goal is success in Iraq. He defines success as "A Iraqi Government that can defend and sustain itself". Underlying this and not in the open is that fact that the USA has the contracts to rebuild Iraq. The USA can not collect that money if we don't have the security to do the work in Iraq. Lets get this out in the open. The USA has no choice, we are forced to provide the money to rebuild but who gets the money will be controlled by Iraq not the USA if and when we set a date certain to end the occupation. Is Iraq moving toward being a Democracy.? Do they now control there own army? Lets get this out in the open. Do they get to decide who gets the contracts?

Willy, good points all. But do you understand that we are in ocupation of Iraq? "withdraw (aka retreat & surrender) and give the terrorists their victory."
Congress approved the invasion to dispose Saddam, they did not approve ocupation of Iraq. I think that owning Iraq was never a real goal. The words "retreat and Surrender" do not apply.

BTW, terrorism is a idea. It is not a person or group of people. You can not fight and kill a Idea.

RKO, right on the mark. At least you get it. Most Republicans will never get it. All sides in the civil war want the oil money, even ours.

Answer 1

The Bush administration doesn't care if Iraq moves toward a democracy. If we were there to bring democracy to a country ruled by an evil despot, we'd be in every other nation on Earth ruled by an evil despot. We're there for OIL. Pure and simple.
Because American motorists want to drive $60,000 gas-guzzling SUVs and because Dick Cheney and his Exxon-Mobil buddies want to get richer and richer and richer as they feed America's addiction to foreign OIL.
Bush doesn't 'hear' anything but his own 'cowboy' ego. Bush is nothing more than a puppet controlled by the nameless, faceless sub-humans who run our government from behind-the-scenes. The wealthy elitists, special interest groups, military-industrial complex, and big corporations have told Bush what to do, what to say, and coached him on how to act. He's a moron.
We WILL NOT WITHDRAW TROOPS from Iraq until we've sucked every drop of OIL out of that land. If that's not the case, why is the U.S.A. building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre sit in downtown Baghdad overlooking the 'new' Iraqi puppet government just installed by the Bush administration??
We're there for the OIL.
The Republicans know it. The Democrats know it.
Nothing will change.
The Iraqi Civil War will go on, and Cheney will eventually get a rock-solid, iron clad agreement from the new Iraqi government that gives U.S. oil companies exclusive rights to all that easily-accessible OIL.
The blood of about 675,000 people (Iraqis and Americans) is on the hands of greed head politicians, war-profiteering corporate entities, war-mongering members of the giant U.S. military-industrial complex, and motorists who think they have a right to drive Hummers and other outlandish vehicles that waste gas.
Iraq is not moving toward being a democracy.
It's moving toward being a puppet regime for the U.S.A. -RKO-

Answer 2

I don't think it's just the Bush administration that isn't understanding what the voters said. People tend to see things as only Republican versus Democrat but there are also divisions amongst the parties and several gains by the Dems were from conservative Democratic candidates.

Take Joe Lieberman, for example. Joe has been quite vocal on his belief that the war against terror in Iraq must be won. Because of this, his own liberal party hardliners chose to support a liberal Dem candidate, forcing Joe to run as an independant, and he WON!

The true message voters sent out is this... we need a change of strategy, but do not want to go so far as to fully withdraw (aka retreat & surrender) and give the terrorists their victory. There are other strategies that could be considered and the message on election day is let's consider some of those alternatives.

One alternative, by the way, is to split up Iraq into three separately governed provinces, one by the Kurds, one by the Sunnis, and one by the Shiites. If you go back in history before the fall of the Ottoman Empire in WW1, this is actually how it existed then. Iraq was created when Britain, who was given control of this region, forced a unification of these three provinces to control under one border. Since Iraq gained their independence in 1936, the three factions have been fighting for control to self-govern ever since.

Answer 3

you have have been given a brilliant element, Sky -- so enable's shrink and run now. truthfully the region in Iraq would be lots better after the liberals convince us to throw up the white flag in resign. this is going to enhance only like as quickly as we shrink and run in Vietnam -- and then, communist thugs took over in Vietnam and Cambodia and proceeded to kill, imprison, and exile hundreds of thousands of people. i'm particular that if we shrink and run in Iraq, peace and solidarity and brotherhood will reign superb there. Yeah, good -- and in case you have faith that, have I have been given very much on a bridge for you! EDIT -- right this is the area of the information tale that Sky very actual surpassed over: "The defendants remained in American militia custody, even though, and the charges would desire to be reinstated if prosecutors effectively charm the call." Oh, and Sky, those adult males weren't "pardoned." A pardon is for individuals who've been convicted and sentenced, and who've had their sentences wiped out. those adult males have been in no way convicted of something, so they could not have been pardoned. If there grew to become into something incorrect with that, then this is the Iraqis' fault, not ours. .

Answer 4

Yes, but very slowly. Fascism will never come back to the country, but the insurgents don't understand that. They are trying to disturb the process. They are succeding in doing this but they are unsuccessful in the way that they will not bring the old Iraq back. They do control their own army, but they don't have a ton of soldiers to command. It will happen, but slowly.

Answer 5

If hell on earth could be called democracy ,then yes.the coalition
levelled Iraq so its only fair they foot the bill to rebuild.all I can say is good luck with that,cause lets face it this is a civil war and its
only going to escalate.

Answer 6

first of all the Usa occupation must be end then we can talk about DEMOCRAZY
the Usa forces cross thausands of mile to kill destroy and occupied without any reason just like Nazi in the WWII but the honest people in Europe refuse Nazi and honest people in Iraq refuse Usa occupation

Answer 7

No, it is not. At least not right now. This is a country, that
has its own rules. America should just leave it, and allow
them to take control. We need to handle our own problems,
cause there is a war here. Do you watch the local news ?
Case closed.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

No more then the USA is or in fact any so called western democracy. We are merely mercenaries, reaping the benefits of enforcing imbalance

Answer 10

Since you appear not to have been paying attention:

Iraq has been a Constitutional Democracy for over a year now.