Comments:Iraqi provincial elections relatively peaceful

Okay....I'm going to be the first to say it. Thank you Georgie W Bush for giving democracy for the Arabs and hopefully true democracy spreads across the Middle East.--KDP3 (talk) 20:07, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * And may I take the opportunity to remind future American leaders that half-baked notions of interfering in other countries' affairs to defeat terrorism leads to a vast increase in domestic and international terrorism and a bloodbath all round. Though I would have thought that was obvious. Redvers (talk) 20:14, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I would like to thank every single Americans that supported Operation Iraqi Freedom and thank you Micheal Moore (and all liberal traitors) for giving the Terrorist a voice and spreading lies and propaganda. And on a side note Freedom is NOT free.--KDP3 (talk) 20:31, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * But neither does it need to be bought at such a very high price. Redvers (talk) 20:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Blame the wife beating terrorist that don't believe in democracy not President Bush.--66.229.21.217 22:38, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * But Iraq didn't sponsor terrorism against the US. It was not involved with 9/11. Yet we attacked Iraq, creating chaos and bringing destruction to a stable country. The people of Iraq may have been oppressed by a brutal dictator, but if made a list of brutal dictators in the world to pick off with military force, Saddam was not anywhere near the top. Redvers (talk) 22:52, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Tell that too the Kurds and your grand kids you were against a war that gave freedom to oppress people. And hopefully Democracy thought out the Middle east.--66.229.21.217 23:02, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It didn't give freedom to oppressed people, it brought death on a scale they'd never known. It made employed people unemployed. It made a modern, westernised country into a stone-aged Islamic state. It turned a multiethnic nation into a divided, hostile hellhole. It took 24hr electricity and made it 2 hours a day. It took 24 hour drinking water and made it into a typhoid-laden pump that's on for a couple of hours a day. It brought terrorism into a country that didn't have it. It incited people outside of Iraq into committing acts of terrorism in the west. And there's no sign of democracy in the middle east, just shaky elections for religious fundamentalists to dish out patronage. Well, in that sense, I suppose it's not too far from American elections. But otherwise... no. This was a disaster in every way for everybody. Including the heroic service people arriving home by the dozen in bodybags. Redvers (talk) 23:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Redvers you are wrong on so many levels. Just admit Iraq is now better off then Saddam. Men and Women are express themselves freely openly express their beliefs without the government stopping them. And blame the terrorist for making things worse and thank the American soldier Iraq is free. Even Obama agree the Surge which is why the election is talking place worked.--KDP3 (talk) 00:58, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Operation Iraqi Freedom had very little to do with bringing democracy to the Middle East, and a whole lot to do with expanding and cementing American influence per the Project for a New American Century. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:27, 31 January 2009 (UTC)