Reply #90: I did read paragraph 3 of the article [View All]

[Marie26]

Thanks. I'm not talking about this from a US point of view, I'm talking about it from an Iraqi point of view. Dean might've only been trying to knock the Iraqi war, but he's really knocking the democratically elected government of Iraq for not reflecting US perspective. Well guess what? A real Iraqi democracy isn't going to reflect the US perspective. Why should it? Iraq is over 50% Shiite Muslim, the same as Hezbollah. As Iraq's representative, the PM has to be careful not to alienate the majority of his country by endorsing Israel's offensive. He's got to represent his constituents, not the US position. ANY democracy in Iraq will be less pro-Israel than the US - that's simply the ethnic & religious heritage of the country. Either we can accept that, or we can be honest & say we don't really want a democracy in Iraq.