The U.S. may stage as many "elections" as it cares to, but these charades are nothing more than the above porcine cosmetic. The result is not democracy, but rather a curious mismash of an Islamic republic awkwardly blended with a U.S. military occupation.
We have the perverse spectacle of Iraq's former interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite, complaining that human rights abuses by some in the new government are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. ""People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same thing," he said. Mix that in with the blending of Sunni resistance and "terror," and you have a disaster that no number of purple fingers can hide.
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