vimothy
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I think Nomad was laughing at the notion that the government in Iraq is anything but a U.S. puppet -- in other words, not representative of the Iraqi people.
If you think that the current Iraqi government is a puppet of the American military and / or the American administration, you are not paying any attention, or you're an idiot. A puppet government (a la Daniel Pipes' suggestion) would solve everyone's problems. Well, obviously not everyone's, but it would certainly make George Bush's life easier.
If we want to talk about the inherent flaws in "representative" political systems... maybe another thread is needed.
More interesting to me is how someone considers Baathist terrorists, chauvanistic Sunni militia and murderous Fedayeen to be more legitmate than a government elected by the people of Iraq. (Even if you don't think it's truly representative in an ideal sense, it's at least substantially more representative than Saddam, i.e. gives power to Shia and Kurds).
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