2007-02-10 11:59:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
That is the 500 Billion dollar question Brad. The answer is, you can't.
And if you are an administration dumb enough to bring down the government of a country that has citizens with strong loyalties to a multitude of different sectarian and/or ethnic groups that have their own militias, it is going to end badly. Many of us predicted this months before the war started.
2007-02-10 12:04:07 · answer #1 · answered by sleser001 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know what US President Bill Clinton had in mind when he signed the into law H.R. 4655, the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998." but the wording did include Democracy. Having kept up with Saddam's Iraq since the later '70s that seemed a good idea to me. http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/libera.htm
The Coalition under US President George Bush made it possible for 8 million Iraqis to go to the polls and freely vote - remember all those purple fingers?
I can't think of any instance where anyone but yourself has considered the notion of "FORCE democracy on people by bringing them to war" -- why would you even want to?
2007-02-10 20:23:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, you start by accusing them of something like WMD. Then you shock and awe them and blow up a few small towns. Then you start a civil war there so you don't have to waste as many bullets. Then your mission is accomplished. All you have to then is build massive military bases all around the place. Of course you also have to quietly keep sucking their oil dry so you'll have more money to keep attacking them. Hopefully most of them will move away. The ones left you just capture and imprison and torture. Pretty soon, after spending a half trillion dollars, you'll be able to start forcing democracy down their throats, but you must keep those oil wells pumping.
2007-02-10 20:12:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Democracy cannot be forced to a people who had been with the Islamic state form of government for so many years.
2007-02-10 20:17:55 · answer #4 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You just have to take oilfields (other resources) under control and set up puppets in government. This is what usa mean as "democracy".
2007-02-10 20:13:47 · answer #5 · answered by Philip from Moscow 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I hope you aren't referring to the war in Iraq, because it has nothing to do with democracy.
2007-02-10 20:03:24 · answer #6 · answered by T Time 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Iraq held free elections and they wrote their own constitution. It is the insurgent radical islamist that are causing the stir trying to take over the young weak government. This is a power play, Democratic Iraq fighting the 1st century whack jobs. We are not forcing anything on them. We are helping them to hold on to what they want.
2007-02-10 20:03:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
The second answer above by that woman, is sounds like bush spoke those words himself. Why do the american sheeple always use bush's sound bites?
2007-02-10 20:10:34 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Slug 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not germane to any issue in the real world.
2007-02-10 20:40:18 · answer #9 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"THERE ARE NO WINNERS IN WAR , NEVER WAS NEVER WILL BE" "SOMEHOW THIS MADNESS MUST CEASE"
2007-02-10 21:40:13 · answer #10 · answered by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋