"risking their lives" to vote, has little to do with being ready. they have, so far, shown themselves unable to form the institutions (free of corruption) and security apparatus needed to sustain a democracy. anybody can vote and dip their finger into an inkwell.
I wish we could dip our fingers in inkwells to make the RATS lose every election. However, we had corruption galore in some of our vaunted institutions, hadn't we? LOL
Al Qaeda terrorists, Iranian agents and Syrian agents disrupting a democracy has little to do with the large majority of Iraqis being ready for democracy.
Yeah like we are free of corruption...