Even if Iraq goes to sh*t after the election

[shadowknows69]

or civil war breaks out, which IMO is likely when the people of Iraq figure out their votes all went to the US puppet regime, will we even be told about it. The MSM is so bought and on-board all of a sudden with what a great thing shrub has done. I question if they'll even keep reporting our casualties. I mean the war is definitely over now right? Mission accomplished again.

[trotsky]

1. Election was held. Democracy acheived. Now look over here...

Robert Blake is on trial! Ooh, a shiny object!

[ComerPerro]

2. That's what I have figured

All these people who are just so happy for the Iraqi people (who, interestingly enough, were ready to kill every last one of them not even two months ago) don't really give a shit what happens. They could start killing each other in a civil war at the rate of thousands a day, and all we would hear about here is how great things are now and how its good that they are finally free.

All hail Bush.

[Inland]

3. I won't be Bush's fault. He gave them democracy, they blew it

they deserve what happends to them, we are good and pure and they are just yesterday's papers.

That is why I do expect Bush to pull out now.

[Solly Mack]

8. That will be the spin

[mdhunter]

4. The larger issue is this...

Whatever else happens, the election serves as the critical point when the Bush administration no longer feels culpable for what happens in Iraq. It's the perfect accountability release valve.

Civil war breaks out in March? The President gets assassinated? General malaise for years? Not "our" problem, it is their country after all, see they had elections?

On the flip side, what if something good does come out of this. Indeed we all hope it does. Say a consensus President heals old wounds and by this time next year Iraq is bounding down the road to progress, economic and political. What then? Well, then it's all the U.S.'s doing, it wasn't the Iraqis, after all, it was "us" that gave them elections, right?

They're trying to have it both ways, and are looking like fools doing it.

[Dangerman]

5. Who cares...

If Iraq goes to hell in a handbasket, Bush can go screw himself for this.

[jmowreader]

6. Iraq went to shit before the election

I'm trying to figure out where you get this "after."

[shadowknows69]

7. sorry, I meant deeper sh*t

:hippie:

[jmowreader]

10. Better. Thanks.

[gratuitous]

9. Yeah, the true test isn't . . .

The true test isn't whether the U.S. can force an election on a country while our military button down everything they can button down (by the way, too bad if you live in Fallujah or Basra, democracy will take a little longer to reach y'all); it's whether the Iraqis can hold a second election all on their own.

Suggestion: Don't hold your breath.