The chaos, rebellion, whatever you want to call it, that is taking place in the Middle East, in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Gaza, etc., is, although no one will say it, illuminating the truth that Iraq is in the best, not good, but relatively best, shape of any country in the Middle East, excepting, as always, Israel.
There are some protests taking place in Iraq, but they are not trying to overthrow a brutal, venal dictator. They are demanding better, less corrupt, performance from their elected representatives, much like the tea party is doing here in the U.S.
Nobody is shooting them down in the streets, like Ghaddafi, or cutting them off from access to the internet, like Mubarak; or bribing them, as the Saudi royal family is doing with their subjects.
Thank you, George W. Bush (and U.S. military forces), for bringing this tiny, flickering light of freedom to the world’s darkest neck of the woods.
Question: Did you read the articles you linked to? Did you see the mention of over ten gunned down in Iraq? And of the prime minister’s increasingly dictatorial actions? And bribes?
Well said. Who would have thought thast indeed Iraq does appear to be the best of the bad in the middle east. They are teetering as was demonstrated by the months of negot to form a new government. But at least no one was asassinated nor were protestors shot down in the streets.
AKX seems to be looking for perfection which is unreasonable in a “baby democratic” country. Our own USA is not giving the world a good example of democracy.