You Call This Liberation? Why No Democracy in Iraq? - Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council

It's almost a year since the Iraq war began, and now that the "official" reasons for the invasion--Iraq's storied stockpiles of weapons, the imaginary ties between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden--lie in disrepute, the Bush administration's new tack is to say the war was really about something else all along: democracy.
If it was really about the weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. had the right to invade in terms of self-defense and global protection; but the cry of "democracy" alone was not a valid base of invasion. Do you really think there will be democracy in Iraq? Remember the Shah?
Remember back about in May 1978 protesters stormed 2nd Avenue chanting "Send the Shah Home/ Now's the Time /Let Him Pay for All of His Crimes" The Shah's arrival in New York City subsequently "led to the Iranian takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran by "Students of Imam's Line" and the taking hostage of more than 50 Americans for 444 days."
After that Iran was usurped by the iron rule of Ayatollah Rouhollah Mousavi Khomeini (Imam Khomeini)

Looks like those Islamic Fundamentalists will overtake Iraq. Just remember, "Ayatollah Khomeini in his 10 years of leadership established a theocratic rule over Iran. He did not fulfil his pre-revolution promises to the people of Iran but instead he started to marginalize and crash the opposition groups and those who opposed the clerical rules. He ordered establishment of many institutions to consolidate power and safeguard the cleric leadership. During his early years in power he launched the Cultural Revolution in order to Islamize the whole country. Many people were laid off, and lots of books were revised or burnt according to the new Islamic values. Newly established Islamic Judiciary system sentenced many Iranians to death and long-term imprisonment as they were in opposition to those radical changes."
Just because
Saddam Hussein has been knocked out of the picture doesn't necessarily mean that Iraq will be safe from a different evil villain. Do we really want a
Fundamentalist Iraq?