Democracy in Iraq & America

Bush and Cheney can't build democracy in Iraq or anywhere else because they can't handle democracy here at home.

-S.W. Anderson

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States was energetic and determined, and during the 40 years of the Cold War it was patient and deliberate. In neither case did any U.S. president intentionally preach fear as the major message to the people - on the contrary.

With his very loose formulations, the president is now creating a climate of fear that is destructive for American morale and distorting of American policy.

-Zbigniew Brzezinski

Our ever so grateful friends in the new democratic Iraq — well, they had elections anyway — are trying to tell us something:

Get out, already! Or, if not right now at least within the year. Oh, and by the way, if our people kill your people, your people have got it coming to them.

-S.W. Anderson