".. a glimpse of what life can be like under a democracy"..

[SoCalDem]

I cannot believe he actually SAID that, but I heard it with my own ears.. I always knew he was dense, but this takes the cake..

So far , democracy in Iraq looks like:

car bombs
suicide bombers
US soldiers with guns, who do not speak the language
children being abducted on their way to school
people afraid to venture out of their homes
millions of men with no jobs
unrepaired sewage/electrical/water facilities
"rich" white guys living it up in Saddam's palaces..using filipino/chinese/pakistani "servants"
Inter-faith rivalries rearing their ugly heads
terrorists waltzing across the border at will

Gee.. EVERYONE will want democracy soon

[Qanisqineq]

1. don't forget

women so poor they must turn to prostitution

[Sandpiper]

2. Iraq is every Republican's fantasy

There is no functional government, and almost everyone has a gun.

[eaprez]

3. The Liberation of Iraq

by Harry Browner form.

How has Iraq been liberated? Let me count the ways . . .

1. The country is occupied by a foreign power.

2. Its officials are appointed by that foreign power.

3. Its citizens must carry ID cards.

4. They must submit to searches of their persons and cars at checkpoints and roadblocks.

5. They must be in their homes by curfew time.

6. Many towns are ringed with barbed wire.

7. The occupiers have imposed strict gun-control laws, preventing ordinary citizens from defending themselves — making robberies, rapes, and assaults quite common.

8. Trade with some countries is banned by the occupying authorities.

9. The occupiers have decreed that certain electoral outcomes won't be permitted.

10. Families are held hostage until they reveal the whereabouts of wanted resisters — much like the Nazis held innocent French people hostage during World War II.

11. Protests are outlawed.

12. Private property is raided or demolished — with no warning and with no due process of law.

13. The occupiers have created a fiat currency and imposed it on the populace.

14. Newspapers, radio stations, and TV are all supervised by the occupiers.

15. Money from the country's oil resources are confiscated and spent in secret by the foreign occupying power.
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You can download Harry Browne's Why Government Doesn't Work at www.LibertyFree.com.
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He is the Director of Public Policy for the American Liberty Foundation.
He was the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000.