"The
media are taking care not to recall the paternity of this success, which
contradicts their sheeplike and anti-Bushist analyses. … If the 'anti-warriors'
had been followed, there would be no democracy in Iraq."
Iyad Allawi votes: Iraq's interim prime minister and head of the Iraqi National List stands the best chance of unseating the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
Will history finally give its
due to George W. Bush? Launched seven years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it
is indeed his policy of democratizing Iraqthat is asserting itself - election after election and despite serious
initial strategic errors. Last weekend, Iraqis mobilized en masse to go vote, despite
intimidation by al-Qaeda (38 dead in the attacks). The Sunni minority, which
had hitherto abstained, took to the ballot boxes. According to initial
projections, the Islamist parties have confirmed their decline. As Le
Figaro's special correspondent in Baghdad Adrien Jaulmes wrote on Monday: “The
American invasion and installation of a new regime have propelled the country into
a democratic system unparalleled in the Arab world, excluding the special case
of Lebanon.” But generally speaking, the media are taking care not to recall
the paternity of this success, which contradicts their sheep-like and anti-Bushist
analyses. Having been among those who supported the American strategy of 2003, I
rejoice all the more in this success, even if everything isn't yet perfect. For
example, the plight of Christians in Iraqi remains appalling.
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Year after Year, Iraqis
provide a denial to those who believe that there exists an incompatibility between
Islam and democracy - which is coupled with a yearning for freedom on the part
of many Iranians. In recent days, televised reports showed that electoral
posters of female Iraqi legislative candidates, depicted without veils (is
Olivier Besancenot aware of his backwardness when he defends
his veiled candidate?). For my part, I recall the peremptory assertions of
those innumerable commentators who assured us that democracy couldn't be imposed
(despite the examples of Japan or Germany) and that resorting to force could
only consolidate terrorism. The followers of “soft-power,” those new Munichites [appeasers]
who have the upper hand in France, remain ready to temporize in the face of the
new “Islamo-Fascism,” a designation of Bush and the neoconservatives. If the
“anti-warriors” had been followed, there would be no democracy in Iraq.
