What democracy? Iraq is on it's way to becoming a nation under rule of Islam, a sure-fire start to another dictatorship. Wow, what an improvement. A secular terrorist dictatorship to an Islamic fake democracy. How many elections until an "Allah's voice" candidate gets in office and starts dissolving the voting process because "Allah" disapproves? And then claims to be following God's wishes when he starts taking in extremists, attacking neighbors, and pursuing nuclear weapons? Oops, all we have is a more religious Saddam Hussein!
And our hand may have been force going in, but we've tied our *own* hands* behind our back now that we're there. American soldiers are dying because we can't conduct air strikes on terrorist camps, and force our troops not to retaliate to bullets being fired from mosques, because it's okay for a few dozen soldiers to die as long as a shot-up mosque doesn't appear on the evening news! We try to hold cities while leaving borders wide open for the terrorist reinforcements to come right across!
We were right to go in, but now we're playing politics instead of war, and Americans are dying because of it. Bush is no hero.
You may well be right. I sure hope you aren't...but Islamic nations have a 0% success ratio in the democracy dept. ( Turkey is somewhat democratic/ Islamic)
Article below buttresses your POV
"AMIR TAHERI'S REMARKS AT DEBATE "ISLAM IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH DEMOCRACY"
http://www.benadorassociates.com/pf.php?id=4462
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>...."we've tied our *own* hands* behind our back now that we're there....<
- I agree with your point about poltical correctness tying the hands of our soldiers. I'm hearing more and more about that. In fact, a guy who was very articulate discussed this problem on the Rush Limbaugh show the other day... he sounded very well informed. If that's the case, then our efforts in Iraq are in serious touble. Regards
"...But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go....."~ Thoms Jefferson
(Excerpt from letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, "Sectionalism and the Missouri Compromise," 22 April 1820)