Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff write on Jack Balkin's blog that there should be a referendum in the upcoming Iraqi election, giving the Iraqi people the chance to decide themselves if they want the illegal occupation of their country to end immediately.
I think that is a good idea. Actually I proposed something like this on March 11 last year, before this illegal war of aggression even started.
The fact that there has been no referendum to the Iraqi people on the question if they want the Americans to stay or leave until now is alone proof enough that the American government has no interest in Iraqi democracy, and that this is just the last surviving propaganda spin.
This is becoming just as ridiculous as the WMD fairy tales. If the Americans are so keen on democracy in Iraq, why don't the Iraqis get a fair chance to vote Bush out of their country after all that time?
Well, the simple answer might be that with the blackbox voting presidential elections Americans didn't get that chance either. Democracy in America is inferior to that in most other countries, and voting there is lacking international standards like nonpartisan election commissions and uniform election standards and procedures.
I don't know if the Ayres proposal has any chances. But anyhow, if there is an election, Iraqi candidates will have a chance to state before the election if they want the Americans to stay until hell freezes over or if they want them to get the hell out, like now, immediately.
And the insurgents can then drop their RPGs and use a much stronger weapon to get rid of the illegal occupation and take their country back.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at December 11, 2004 08:19 AM | TrackBack