There is nothing wrong with an Iraq that practices Islam while using constitutional law as its guideline.
If my memory serves me correctly, we were built on the same principles with Christianity as our guideline. So much so that "In god we trust" is embedded into our lives.
Iraq can live along those guidelines. You just have to take out the radical element first. That will be the next phase of this operation because without that, Iraq will never go right.
As a side note, what is hysterical about this is that the RATS, who have been trying to remove religion from our nation, doesn't support it in Iraq. They like the radicals.
Imagine if radical Christians started blowing things up to turn this country into a Christian Iraq.
Iraq doesn't just "practice Islam" -- it has enshrined Islam as the official state religion in its constitution.
If my memory serves me correctly, we were built on the same principles with Christianity as our guideline.
Christianity was "our guideline" only in a very generic sense. If you read the formal documents on which this country was founded, you'll find few -- if any -- religious aspects of Christianity in them. My sense is that the only uniquely Christian aspect of this country has been what I call "civil Christianity" (as opposed to "religious Christianity"). Civil Christianity is that aspect of Christianity that deals with the basic -- and historically unique -- notion that Christians are expected to treat all people (Christian and non-Christian) alike.
The founders of this country went to great lengths to eradicate any notion of an official government religion -- specifically to avoid the kind of nonsense that has become commonplace in Iraq today.
The basic tenets of Islam is NOT democracy. Have you ever read the Koran? I didn't think so.