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[No Exit]

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

The Democracy Day Post

Today we celebrate a new holiday in Iraq. It’s Democracy day. On this day last year we voted for the first time after the war.
Now give me a moment to do my Happy Dance to celebrate the fact that we have a couple of religious extremists sitting in parliament and deciding what my future will look like. I guess the only consolation is the fact that this is happening wherever the much-celebrated march towards democracy does a parade in the Middle East. The newest addition to the proud We-Choose-Islam club is Palestine.

I am still trying to figure out the answer to the riddle of a democratic process that brings in an undemocratic government. We’ve all put ourselves in a very uncomfortable corner, every single on of us who believed that the people will choose what’s ultimately best for their future and the western democratic governments are the first in line.
The right to choose your own destiny and all that. The problem is we seem to choose future car crashes for a destiny.

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Moqtada al-Sadr whom I first took notice of because of his inability to speak intelligibly is going to have a say in my future? 32 years old and not really the sharpest tool in the shed, the only reason he has such a big following is because of a father and uncle who were very respected scholars. Does this make him one? Apparently yes.

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http://justzipit.blogspot.com/2006/01/democracy-day-post.html

This could've been written by an American about today's United States. Article: "I am still trying to figure out the answer to the riddle of a democratic process that brings in an undemocratic government." Me: "I am still trying to figure out the answer to the riddle of a democratic process that brings in an undemocratic government."

Article: "Moqtada al-Sadr whom I first took notice of because of his inability to speak intelligibly is going to have a say in my future?" Me: "George W. Bush whom I first took notice of because of his inability to speak intelligibly is going to have a say in my future?"

Article: "(He's) not really the sharpest tool in the shed, the only reason he has such a big following is because of a father and uncle who were very respected scholars." Me: "He's not really the sharpest tool in the shed, the only reason he has such a big following is because of a father and grandfather who held national-level offices."

Article: "The right to choose your own destiny and all that. The problem is we seem to choose future car crashes for a destiny." Me: "The right to choose your own destiny and all that. The problem is we seem to choose future car crashes for a destiny."