Frustration with democracy is growing in Iraq, where four months after nationwide elections, a new government has yet to be formed. According to this article by columnist Abd Al Aziz Al Maqaleh of the Iraq News Agency, the delay, and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s clinging to power, prove that U.S. plans for a ‘democratic Iraq’ were bogus from the start, as are its claims that we intend to leave.
For the Iraq News Agency, Abd Al Aziz Al Maqaleh writes in part:
It has now been four months since Iraq’s “democratic” elections that took place under the occupation, and the “elected” National Assembly has been unable to form a new government. Long and heated negotiations have taken place, but to no avail. The disagreements between the sectarian blocs and factions formed out of these aforementioned elections have hardened. All of which goes to prove that a democracy that flows out of the tanks and aircraft of the invaders only results in foolish rumors and naive tales similar to those mothers often lull their children to sleep with. Worse and more amazing still, is that the “democratic” prime minister refuses to leave unless the same kind of bloody, deadly coup that defined Iraq in the decades before “American democracy” descends upon him!
Just days ago [July 4], a messenger of democracy, the vice president of the United States, came to hand down his directives to opposing Iraqi factions. In the wake of his unexpected visit, his objectives, or rather his perceptions, which are that things should remain the way they are, became clear: the sectarian division of power that was present before the last elections should remain, meaning Maliki should stay in the prime minister’s position, the Kurds should keep the presidency and the Sunnis should keep the Assembly presidency. It’s as if, rather than democracy, what’s being replicated in the Arab world is the situation in Lebanon; as though there is no democracy left, nor anyone to mourn it.
Amid Iraq’s sectarian struggle and with the continuing bombings that target innocent civilians all over the stricken Arab country, we hear voices growing louder, insisting on the need for the occupying forces to remain, and even delaying troop withdrawals indefinitely. This was the main objective of manipulating the election results and maintaining the status quo.
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