2007-09-17 06:01:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
A democracy can only been found when he people of a country are wanting it and are willing to fight and die for that. I don't recall anyone in Iraq asking for a democracy. I don't think they are ready for it. A country has to be ready for it. It can't be forced on them via the end of a gun. If it is, it is not truly a democracy.
2007-09-17 06:06:03 · answer #1 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
truthseeker is wrong, I don't any asking for a dictator to gas their families and kids either.
The Sunni's in the Al-Anbar province are afraid that we will leave, yet all these people want us to leave. I hope the Iraqi military can get it together so they can achieve peace and a democracy, the areas that haven't already stopped fighting.
They are willing to fight with us, and they have said now that some of the former Saddam supporters are working with the Iraqi's now, I'm just not sure how much they can trust the Saddam loyalists. I think the right steps have been taken and that they are certainly on their way, even if some people in this country don't believe so or don't want it to happen for some reason.
2007-09-17 14:05:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Probably not. You can't -inflict- democracy on a people.
The US has been interfering with other nations for years. We have meddled in their politics, assassinated leaders we didn't like, arranged 'revolutions' and takeovers, and when nothing else worked we've sent the Marines. We have always called this 'exporting democracy' but it would be very hard for you to show a single case where American intervention actually created a democracy! (Though there have been places where the people of the country created a democracy after they got rid of the regime we imposed on them--The Philippines comes to mind).
It's pretty clear to me that a real western-style democracy was the LAST thing the Bush admin. wanted in Iraq. A genuine president, popularly elected, would move to nationalize the oilfields so as to keep more of the wealth in the country, and that's just what Bush -didn't- want.
We put the Ba'athists in Iraq in the first place, and as long as Saddam allowed the big oil companies to run the whole process he was 'our friend in the region'. We knew it would take a 'strong man' to keep together population groups that hated each other, and I'm pretty sure we planned on replacing him with another 'strong man' just as strong. Google 'Iraq PSAs' (production sharing agreements) and see how we thought a 'democratic' Iraq should deal with their only source of national wealth.
2007-09-17 13:11:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
No people should have beliefs forced upon them. Our country chose a democracy because it seemed to be the only plausible means of creating a government that would involve the voice of the common man in its affairs. If I could have put a clause in the Constitution concerning something like a prime directive like Roddenberry's "Star Trek" I think the true meaning of a democracy would fit the plausibility it was originally created to represent.
2007-09-17 13:27:25 · answer #4 · answered by Emissary 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Don't think so, the Brits tried for years to install a democracy in Iraq with no success. Then Saddam threw them out. It has not been a democracy in 2000 years, much as I hate to say so, not seeing Iraq as a democratic state anytime soon.
2007-09-17 13:08:33 · answer #5 · answered by Don Drapers woman 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Yes, but like anything else, it will take time to achieve than aim. How long did it take America? Over hundreds of years. Iraq is moving rather quickly, compared to America. Queen Elizabeth I started colonizing America in the 1600's. I say Iraq may have their problems, but they're doing a faster job at becoming a democratic Nation, than we did, and thanks to our help, too!
2007-09-17 13:57:43 · answer #6 · answered by xenypoo 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Not as long as they have the Saturday Night Live-sketch of a government in place.
Our military is meaningless if the Shiites, Kurds and the other faction won't get along.
2007-09-17 13:05:09 · answer #7 · answered by Still Beautifully Conservative 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Considering that 75% of their population braved suicide bombers, car bombs, terrorist threats and death squads to vote in their last national election, and that free juice and cookies barely draws 40% of ours, I'd say they're doing a heck of a lot better than we are.
2007-09-17 13:19:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
ever is a long time, so probably.
2007-09-17 13:06:01 · answer #9 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-09-17 13:07:00 · answer #10 · answered by Page 4 · 1⤊ 5⤋