Reply #2: I Would Challenge Everything You Think You Know

[ThomWV]

And I would do it just because what you have laid out is what I would have (only you did it better than I could have) but I think we may all be bamboozled on this.

Everything you said comes right out of the right-wing controlled media and its echoed by media on the left. I don't think we have a clue what is going on in that country. I don't think one reporter or dignitary or soldier on the ground in Iraq has a clue what is forming there politically. I do not trust one word I read about it and I do not trust one assumption I have about the damned place.

Here is all we really know about their election. We destroyed the country, we said we were going to build a democracy. A democracy needs two things, voters and a constitution. We made them write a constitution. Its crap and no one thinks it will survive but its written. Next they had to have an election. So they had an election. It was meaningless but it was held. Now, back to the mayhem sorting itself out with guns.

There will be one hell of a lot more shooting in that country before the first ballot is cast that actually means jack shit.