A base for the corruption of democracy - By Scott Ritter

[CHIMO]

As the honeymoon period of the much-hyped 30 January elections in Iraq comes to an end amid the explosions of car bombs and continuous US military action, the harsh reality that these elections have failed to produce a government capable of governing, let alone govern in a fashion that resembles any notion of what a democracy should look like, comes crashing home.

The purple finger revolution of January 2005 has proved only one thing: that the US media is capable of building something out of nothing.

Any informed observer of Iraq could have predicted the failure of the elections to produce any viable result; Iraq as a nation state was simply too deeply fractured for a process sponsored by an illegitimate military occupier to succeed.

Instead of interfering in this labour, the citizens of the US and the UK would do well to reflect on their own respective shortcomings, and turn their attention to shoring up the foundations of their own democracies, both of which have suffered much damage due to the ongoing debacle in Iraq.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5250B0C3-847C-426F-A4DA-FDA0F35975B3.htm

[walkon]

1. Typically truthful

and accurate analysis. But since it's Ritter not much attention given.