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Originally Posted by Buffalo Tom
The Bush Administration seems to be imposing its vision of the political structure of post-Saddam Iraq, without consulting the international community, let alone the country's populace.
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The international community? The only countries besides Iraq itself we need input from are the ones who actually played a role in the war. And your idea that the Bush administration is not consulting the Iraqi people is simply uninformed. Input from the Iraqis is the key part of drafting this new constitution.
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Whether this structure is the correct one or not is irrelevant.
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Irrelevant? Pfft. It's completely relevant. The war was waged to make sure that Iraq would be free from both dictatorship and Islamic theocracy. Without our intervention they wouldn't even have the opportunity to create a new government, so I think they owe it to us to follow through with the democracy plan at the very least.
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They are perceived by large portions of Iraq's citizens as a foreign power which has taken away the right to self-determination.
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What citizens? The radicals in Fallujah? The ambassador herself assured the United States just yesterday that the vast majority of Iraqis are firmly in support of the United States' efforts to establish a democracy.