Iraq just just had its elections,
Good or bad, legitimate or illegitimate I let those who are more informed judge but I ask just one thing that the Iraqi people be given the benefit of doubt, trust, and choice to choose the person who they think will lead them best. If it is a mad mullah in the style of theocratic Iran so be it. The only thing is that fair and open elections muct be held so even that when people realise to their horror they have made a mistake they are given an opportunity at the end of it to correct it. Dictators only remain in place because there are no free elections and therefore they don't have t be accountable to the people. Even in politically homogenous Singapore which is a virtual dictatorship the very fact that the epople have a choice to vote some one elase if they want to ensures that it is not a dictatorship in the style of Sudan or Syria and its people are actually enjoying better lives in the of economic prosperity access to health and so on. They is accountability. Free elections must be enshrined in the Constitution and it must stated in such a way so that martial law can't be used to remove this freedom ala Pakistan.