The War

Wagner · #1 01-19-2007, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric5273

I've heard this over and over and it's simply BS. Iraq was a parlamentary dictatorship under Saddam. What it means is that there were elections and people voted for members of the parlament and Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds all held many positions in the parlament. So the people of Iraq know exactly what democracy is. The only difference now is that instead of Saddam as "president for life", the prime minister was chosen by the Parlament. The voting process for the people was the same, except perhaps with more choices than in the past.

This whole idea is probably the fault of our own media. Those pictures of the people with the purple paint on their fingers would make you think these people had never seen a ballot box before in their lives.

The issue here is that this country should not be a country and it never should have been. It should be 2 or 3 different countries. The British drew the borders this way to "divide and conquer" -- to keep infighting going on amongst the Iraqi people so as not to allow them to unify and kick the British out.

The media and our administration made it out to be as though Iraqi's had never voted in their lives. Were their options limited, YES. Was there a free and open election process, NO. However, there was an election process. I can't recall who it was that said it but one leader said of Israel, "just because the voted, didn't make it democratic"

The whole middle east has a portion of the problems it has today because the ruling "empires" at the time thought they were smart enough to know who should live with who. A while back I made the comparison to if China, Russia and Britain decided to make a colony out of Kansas and put the Taliban there, how upset would the US be? It is similar to what happened with many of the middle easter "countries" now.