[groanup]

What are you guys talking about? Don't you remember the Iraqi's braving the belligerents in their own neighborhoods to vote? Don't you remember the purple fingers? Most of those people want freedom. You guys are way off here.

[Plutarch]

Don't you remember the Iraqi's braving the belligerents in their own neighborhoods to vote?

All those African dictatorships began with elections, before reaching their natural level. It is called One Man, One Vote, Once. We got an election run in Haiti too. The population eventually gets the government it deserves.