21,903 Days Later

Sixty years and three days after the liberation of Auschwitz, the Iraqi people will attempt to make final it's liberation. It will be a tough row to hoe. The Kurds, the Sunni's, and the Shiites have different ideas on how the country should be governed. It is this non-modality in Iraqi politics that has many nay sayers coloring the election a failure.
I must differ with my dear Liberals. The greatest country in the world is the one right under our feet, and so many people have such a problem with understanding how it works. America is an estuary of ethnic/cultural/racial citizens! It is our diversity that makes us strong. The fact is that if you lived in many other countries, you would likely find yourself required to attack and kill your neighbors simply because they are different from you. Why is it that we are able to cohabitate, when thousands of Darfur citizens in the Sudan are being slaughtered due to intolerance. Why?


Because we are not a only a Democracy , but a Representative Republic. That is the basis on which the Iraqi elections are being held. They will be electing a 275-member assembly that will select a cabinet, a prime minister, and a president. This works more like a parliament than a democracy. The beauty of it, is the correlation between the opposing political entities. It is very reminiscent of our system's birth. Some say that even when the election takes place, there is still a good chance that there could be a civil war. Well, I would hate to see that, but I am not going to be pessimistic. I am also not going to fall apart if it does happen. If it was my call, when a civil war does ignite, I would with draw my troops from the area and allow the chips to fall where they may. We should seek to hold civil meetings between the parties involved, but I don't think we have any place in supporting one religious/political faction over another. I hope that we could play a damage control role, but remain impartial. Our civil war helped to make the foundation on which we now stand.
I believe that civil war is very likely, but is in no way inevitable. It is possible that this could go on to bring conformity to a chaotic state. It is every bit as possible that opposing groups can debate their differences and work things out in a Republic represented by elected officials. It is VERY possible that Bush could be shaping the future of all man kind by erecting a free Iraq and creating an indigenous Muslim ally in the war on terror.
It is expected by many of my friends that I make my prediction on who it is I think will become the President of the NEW IRAQ . So just for you guys I will stick my neck out and make a prediction. I say that it is likely that Iyad Allawi will go from the interim Prime minister to the first 'Post-Saddam' leader, and the first ever Iraqi leader to be elected by the citizens of Iraq.

It looks to many, like ( Kurdish) Massoud Barzani , (Shiite) Ahmed Chalabi, or interim President, Ghazi Al-Yawar will be the top runners. I, however, believe that there is more American support in Iraq than we see on CNN or the Liberal news. When Allawi is elected, it will be indicative of Iraqi's support of America. When he wins, it will further validate George Bush as a genius! It will certainly prove that we are liberators and not occupiers. We do not 'colonize'. We free the oppressed!
In 1945, the Soviet 'Red army' marched in to Auschwitz, and saved the lives of 7,650 people. They were 1.1 Million deaths too late, but they none the less, stopped the evil microcosm of what would surely become a Nazi ruled world. Without the resolution and determination of the Allied Nations, WWII would have never happened, and Hitler would have changed the world for the worst. In comparison, If it were not for the intrusion of the big , mean Americans in Iraq, The Terrorists would have been successful in the desolation of Israel and/or America. Saddam and other evil laden Arab despots would have been successful in accomplishing what Hitler set out to do, mass genocide of Jews. What we are doing in Iraq is imperative to our continuing support of Israel. It is only fitting that the first votes be cast on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.