[Sabertooth]

It begins.

[McGavin999]

Dear People of Iraq:

You have just been freed from one tyrant, do you really want to submit to another? If not, you must stand up to these people. We can't do it for you, this one you have to do yourselves.

We can only offer you freedom, the rest is up to you. Look to the east and see what the people of Iran are suffering, that will be your future if you don't get this under control.

[thinktwice]

Interim authority will be helpful; but military force may be required to see to it that women and "infidels" get to vote.

[DeepInEnemyTerritory]

Now lets start talking about the real war, Muslims vs. The World. The only good thing I have to say about Saddam is he kept some of the radical Muslims at bay.
I wonder if Islam, the way it is currently interpreted, is compatible with democracy. I don't think it is without a reformation.

[Happy2BMe]

"Ominously, they distrust the Americans who rid them of Saddam's tyranny and have little faith in the opposition leaders now returning to Iraq from years in exile. They also question whether Western democratic values are suited for their country."

These two sentences capsulize the mindset of Islam - ALL OVER THE WORLD.

(Even in the United States - especially regarding "Western democratic values.")

[Timesink]

Ominously, they distrust the Americans who rid them of Saddam's tyranny and have little faith in the opposition leaders now returning to Iraq from years in exile. They also question whether Western democratic values are suited for their country.

I'll wait to see what the Iraqi PEOPLE have to say, not a bunch of psychoreligious wannabe tyrants.

[RasterMaster]

What keeps coming to mind is those that were hacked apart and a line from a kids series (called Dinosaurs - talking puppet dinosaurs): "We're gonna need another Timmy Mullah!"

[kabar]

We must resist letting the clerics take over. It is what happened in Iran when the mullahs highjacked the revolution. They will not cede power willingly. We should continue to press for a secular society. Iraq was the most secular arab state along with Jordan.

[lavaroise]

They also question whether Western democratic values are suited for their country.

It got them rid of Saddam, what else do they want? Pay debts to the Talebans and Ayatola? Right, sounds like a good deal for the "free" muslim.

[hoyaloya]

He said many Iraqis would be uncomfortable with the rule of politicians who had spent decades abroad. "Many of them want to introduce Western democratic systems that don't suit us here. We have a people here who suffered so much for so long they cannot accept imported ideas."

Ahh. Yes. I see. And how, exactly, have those local ideas have been working out for you for the last, oh, forever?