[Captain Kirk]

It was handed over to pro-Iran Shi’ite Muslim regime as a result of the first free election (so uncritically praised by many defenders of this quagmire)>

[Pan_Yan]

Echoes of the elections in Gaza. It's not that they aren't endowed by the Creator to the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The problem is they are uneducated and belong to a death cult. No Muslim democracy will ever last through two election cycles. They will vote in their next despot.

[livius]

Iraq was handed over to Islam by the fact that its Constitution, which we approved, enshrines Islam and sharia and specifies that nothing shall conflict with Islam. The particular flavor that comes out of an election, that is, Sunni or Shiite, is just a detail.

I will never be able to figure out why we took a country which was actually quite secular by that time and replaced a garden variety dictator with the most dictatorial system of all. We made that country safe for our mortal enemy, Islam.