Are soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq for an 'alternative to democracy'? [View All]

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bottom of the article: (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/17/world/middleeast/17military.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print)


"Some outside experts who have recently visited the White House said Bush administration officials were beginning to plan for the possibility that Iraq’s democratically elected government might not survive.

“Senior administration officials have acknowledged to me that they are considering alternatives other than democracy,” said one military affairs expert who received an Iraq briefing at the White House last month and agreed to speak only on condition of anonymity.

“Everybody in the administration is being quite circumspect,” the expert said, “but you can sense their own concern that this is drifting away from democracy.”


That's a far stretch from the rhetoric that Bush used to get us into Iraq and keep us there looking for a 'victory.' We're going to have to settle for whatever type of government the Iraqis decide they will support and defend. The problem has been that the Bush regime has been busy trying to impose their own with the assistance of our military. If our troops are now going to be fighting and dying to protect and defend anything less than democracy there, that's yet another definition of proper use of the defensive forces of our nation's military by this dissembling administration.