IRAQI DEMOCRACY

Indymedia/Le Monde: No Islamic Iraqi Government - Even If Democratically Voted Into Office: Rumsfeld translation

After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's appalling dictatorship, the US promised that it would establish in Iraq an exemplary democracy....Is such a promise credible? Obviously not. The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, hastened to point out that even if it was the desire of the majority of Iraqis as expressed at the ballot box, the US would not accept an Islamic regime in Iraq: 'That isn't going to happen,' he said . This is a very old law of history: empires impose their law on the vanquished. But there is also another law: those that live by empire die by it.

"Soviel zur Amerikanischen Aufassung von Demokratie und Recht. Als hätten wir es nicht gewusst"