CH812 said:
Wouldnt it be ironic for the US if the Iraqi people elect a shiya majority government similar to the mullah's in Iran? The US would have no choice but to support this new government because they have been promising the world a democratic Iraq.
Right now CIA sources are saying over 1 million foreigners have come into Iraq trying to influence the upcomming election with the majority of these people coming from Iran. And with the large shiya population in Iraq its very well possible they will be the ones in power after the January 20th election.
The US plans for a secular decocracy in Iraq are destined to fail. They'll never unite that divided country and the longer they stay, the worse it will get. This according to Gen. William E. Odom, a retired US general who once headed the National Security Agency.
"...It was hard to disagree with Odom's description of Mr. Bush's vision of reordering the Middle East by building a democracy in Iraq as a pipedream. His prescription: Remove U.S. forces "from that shattered country as rapidly as possible." Odom says bluntly, "we have failed," and "the issue is how high a price we're going to pay - less, by getting out sooner, or more, by getting out later."
At best, Iraq will emerge from the current geopolitical earthquake as "a highly illiberal democracy, inspired by Islamic culture, extremely hostile to the West and probably quite willing to fund terrorist organizations," Odom explained. If that wasn't enough to erode support for the war, Odom added, "The ability of Islamist militants to use Iraq as a beachhead for attacks against American interests elsewhere may increase."
Odom, who heads the pro-Republican Hudson Institute, also sees the sum total of what the U.S. occupation of Iraq has achieved is "the radicalization of Saudi Arabia and probably Egypt, too. And the longer we stay in Iraq, the more isolated America will become."....."
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040429-113745-2828r