DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ WAS, IS, AND WILL
CONTINUE TO BE A BIG FUCKING JOKE

From Crooks and Liars courtesy of AlterNet, some video of the Washington Post's conservative columnist David Brooks asserting that the White House is considering dissolving the Iraqi government:

Matthews: David, do you believe the President is looking for an out from his doctrinaire policy of staying the course?

Brooks: Not really, no I don't. I think they're looking at policy options. One of those options is trying to replace the current government which seems to be doing nothing.

Click here to see the video.

I completely agree with the notion that Iraq's government is nothing but a paper tiger--the real power brokers over there are the insurgents, the militias, and, of course, the US military. But if Brooks is right about Bush's desire to simply scrap the much ballyhooed election results and start over, what does that mean about "spreading democracy" and all that good stuff? Answer: absolutely nothing. Anybody with half a brain already knows that spreading democracy was never a US goal in Iraq. Doing away with the elected government may very well be bad PR for Bush, but it's certainly not a change of direction for American policy.

What will be interesting, if this happens, is to see if anyone in the press or in Congress has the balls to point out the utter hypocrisy here. I give even odds that nobody in the mainstream says anything at all.

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