Topic: Will the JAN 30th Iraqi elections work?

the_13th_redneck · November 21st, 2004

I know this is why the Sunnis don't want the elections to take place. It means they have less power than during Saddam's days.
By the way I don't like the PRC, so if they didn't want the US meddling in "their" affairs as much as I wanted the PRC to go to America and take over, we wouldn't have a problem.
It's a pattern I've seen consistent with Muslim countries (I've lived in two anyways and hear a lot about the others). The big man is the boss. Any democratically elected leader is immidiately handcuffed and rendered incapable due to corruption and other things. In the vacuum comes more localized, more radicalized groups that represent a specific group of people and not the whole country.
All in all, a very intolerant community. Where there is no tolerance, democracy is going to be a hard sell.

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Originally Posted by EuroSpike

"The Sunni area of central Iraq doesn't have a whole lot. Want the Sunnis to be suckers? Cut Iraq into 3 different countries."

They want to be leaders in Iraq. They don't want wrong beliefed dogs to mess their business and occupy their land. They want it as much as you would want China to occupy USA and turn it to black hole of communism. Arabs don't want or need western democracy and they don't rispect it as a goverment. Turning arabs to western democracy is like to turn a capitalist to be a communist.

When US after all someday pulls it's troops out from Iraq, there will be a civil war between different groups to check out who is the boss of the sandbox. Then will a brand new Saddam raise to take over. Weaker groups who try to disagree, will be eliminated.