Democracy will have to wait, US tells Iraq. United States military commanders have ordered a halt to local elections and self-rule in provincial cities and towns across Iraq, instead installing their own hand-picked mayors and administrators, many of them former Iraqi military leaders.
The decision to deny Iraqis a direct role in selecting municipal governments is creating anger and resentment among aspiring leaders and ordinary citizens, who say the US-led occupation forces are not keeping their promise to bring greater freedom and democracy to a country dominated for by Saddam Hussein for 30 years. (link)
First, the Bush Administration told us we had to go to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction. But it seems that Iraq had none. Then the Bush Administration told us that we had gone to war in Iraq to bring democracy to the Iraqi people. So why aren't we doing that? [Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs]
If the US government allowed Iraqis to hold elections, they might vote for people the government doesn't approve of. That's not how the government does things--when they're ready, the Iraqis will be "allowed" to vote for their choice of several US puppets.
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