I'm trying to take you seriously, floyd, but you're making it dificult.
Yes, 'democracy at gunpoint' is a self contradction, I wish you would stop using it. Nobody is forcing Iraqis to vote in elections or serve in public office. What we are doing is hunting insurgents who interfere with the civilized people who have volunteered to fill the void that was left when Saddam's government fell. What we are doing is preventing a new dictatorship from replacing the old one while the people govern themselves of their own volition. Give them a little credit; they haven't started a civil war yet, and as time passes it's becoming less likely that they ever will, they haven't given up despite many attempted and a few successful assassinations on public leaders, their police and military forces grow larger and stronger every day, and the press has unprecidented access to the events that happen there. Their progress surprises even myself.
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