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To: jpl

Some of the people here are forgetting what a democracy means, it means that the people of that country get to chose their government.

Reports from Iraq are that Shia are very unhappy with the moral rules of the UIA and their failure to maintain security and plan on voting in much larger numbers for Allawi a secular Shia in the next election.

The Sunnis will likely vote this time as well and they will likely form a coalition government with Allawi, and some Kurds. The secular forces are looking good for the next election.


30 posted on 07/27/2005 1:21:30 PM PDT by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Thats why democracy is not a good form of government unless tempered by a Constitution, and why our founders gave us a Republic, not a pure democracy.


39 posted on 07/27/2005 1:26:48 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: jmc1969
Some of the people here are forgetting what a democracy means, it means that the people of that country get to chose their government. """

And if they chose politicians who say they want to make war on Israel or the US, that's ok? Sorry, but I don't see why it was worth 2000 US military lives to give Iraqis the right to establish an Islamic government. That may be nice for them in some sense, but it's not the kind of vital US interest that the military - and military - lives are supposed to be used for.

41 posted on 07/27/2005 1:27:12 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: jmc1969
"Some of the people here are forgetting what a democracy means, it means that the people of that country get to chose their government."

Something well worth repeating. It was never our aim to impose our own Constitution or religious beliefs (which in America includes Islam) on them, only to give them the ability to freely determine their own government.

45 posted on 07/27/2005 1:31:19 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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