Actually, our intervention has empowered the fundamentalist Shiites who were kept down by Saddam's boot. They now have a constitution that - in contrast with the secular government of Saddam - identifies Islam as the source of all law. In the countryside, Sharia law is being imposed by mullahs who have been "liberated" from their suppression under Saddam's dictatorship. And the Christians have been mostly driven out of the country.
You said — “In the countryside, Sharia law is being imposed by mullahs who have been “liberated” from their suppression under Saddam’s dictatorship. And the Christians have been mostly driven out of the country.”
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This is why “democracy” is going to fail in Iraq. Islam and democracy are enemies of each other. The one cannot remain in place while the other gains ascendency. They are mutually exclusive of each other...