CurveLight
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"The establishment of democracy in Iraq will remain an uncertain proposition for some time to come. The most difficult matter is the reconciliation of two of Iraq's most important ethnic groups: Shiite and Sunni Muslims. But here there is also hope.
Sunnis who largely boycotted previous elections voted in force, and an intense competition for Shiite votes drove up participation in Baghdad and the south, election observers said.
After seven years of a war whose rationale is deeply disputed in the United States, the Obama administration viewed the vote as a test of Iraq's stability, a last milestone before the final withdrawal of American troops.
The short and fierce political campaign could end up either solidifying Iraq's nascent democracy or leaving the country fractured along ethnic and sectarian lines. But it was arguably the most open, most competitive election in the nation's long history of colonial rule, dictatorship and war. "
South Dakota Politics: Democracy in Iraq
The democracy in Iraq is far from perfect, but then we aren't so perfect either. Are there problems that we would never accept in America? Of course there are, but Iraq is free to choose their own destiny for the first time as a nation. There are religious problems and possibly gender related abuses that we would not accept, but Iraq is not America.
And Bentlight, fuck off.
"The establishment of democracy in Iraq will remain an uncertain proposition for some time to come. The most difficult matter is the reconciliation of two of Iraq's most important ethnic groups: Shiite and Sunni Muslims. But here there is also hope.
Sunnis who largely boycotted previous elections voted in force, and an intense competition for Shiite votes drove up participation in Baghdad and the south, election observers said.
After seven years of a war whose rationale is deeply disputed in the United States, the Obama administration viewed the vote as a test of Iraq's stability, a last milestone before the final withdrawal of American troops.
The short and fierce political campaign could end up either solidifying Iraq's nascent democracy or leaving the country fractured along ethnic and sectarian lines. But it was arguably the most open, most competitive election in the nation's long history of colonial rule, dictatorship and war. "
South Dakota Politics: Democracy in Iraq
The democracy in Iraq is far from perfect, but then we aren't so perfect either. Are there problems that we would never accept in America? Of course there are, but Iraq is free to choose their own destiny for the first time as a nation. There are religious problems and possibly gender related abuses that we would not accept, but Iraq is not America.
And Bentlight, fuck off.
Like a whiny little girl you ignored the question. Once again:
How can you have a democracy when all legislationg is based on a religion and no law that contradicts that religion may be passed?
I don't have a clue. But then I have not studied the intricacies of the new Iraqi constitution, have you? No one here is an expert on this, what we do know is that the average Iraqi for the most part has more freedoms than they ever have had in the past. You may deny that and point out your little exceptions all you want. But they do have a weak yet holding Democracy, voted on by the people. If we disagree with it that only proves that we didn't direct it and choose their government for them. But they did. So it isn't perfect, who is?
You don't have a clue yet wish to proclaim:
"...the average Iraqi for the most part has more freedoms than they ever have had in the past."
That shows how fucking ignorant you are on the matter and yes I've studied Iraq's Constitution. You clearly support the war but you've never studied it. Typical ignorant fucking Nationalist who waves the Flags and ignores the prices paid by tens of thousands of dead and wounded US soldiers. You should be embarrassed and ashamed.