Puppet Governments & Distorted Democracy

Today Sec. of State Rice is in Iraq admittedly putting pressure on our puppet government there to get it's act together and get on with forming a democracy. Amazingly, while doing this in the public glare of worldwide media, she claims there is no undue interference or pressure on Iraq's democratic process.

For those of us who may have forgotten, our reason for being in Iraq now is: 'to spread democracy.'
The USA initial reason was to get the weapons of mass destruction, but that didn't work out.

The civil war in Iraq seems sto be working out ok for American interest. Divide and conquer policies now have
the 'fledgingly democracy' in Iraq realize it may need to be broken up into three separate states, one for the
Kurds, one for the Sunni and one for the Shia. But their constitutional talks still stall over who gets how much oil revenues.

A Constitution that stalls over the issues of who gets how much oil revenues is NOT exactly what many of us thought constitutions were about. The fact that the new democracy we formed in Afghistan wanted to kill someone for converting to Christianity did not seem like progress towards democracy.

However, there was the election of an actualy democracy in the imprisoned Gaza Strip but we and others are busy cutting off its funds, invading its territory and smearing its leaders before they even have gotten in office.

The message is real clear and we all knew it from the beginning: We support governments that agree with us and oppose governments that don't. It has nothing to do with 'spreading democracy,' finding weapons of mass destruction, or any other excuses we make up.