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I would really appriciate your take and input on this persons responses to some <snips> of the articles written on DU such as the Plaid Adder. These two are from "This is what Democracy Looks Like?" APril 14, by Plaid Adder. Does this guy make a good point?
<snippit>(This April, it has become even more obvious that what we are establishing over there or trying to establish, is American control, and not democracy.)
<response> You need control for security; isn't security a prerequisite for the sort of government you'd want to see in Iraq? I don't know of anybody who would prefer that Americans control Iraq in a dictatorial fashion for an extended time versus establishing a functioning democracy ASAP and leaving. I'm pretty sure control is required for establishing that goal.
<snippit>(Bremer's most recent contribution to public relations was to refer to the Iraqis we are currently fighting with as a "poison" that has to be purged from the "Iraqi body politic.")
<response> The only voice isn't al-Sadr's. And if the insurgency was agitating to get a different security force in place to establish a government that secures the liberty of it's people, then maybe the "poison" quote would be puzzling. "Poison" is an accurate term to describe a segment of the population that kills in attempts to secure a government that doesn't secure the liberties of it's people. Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't a majority of insurgents working primarily to prevent democracy from forming? If so, how is Bremmer wrong?
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