Democracy still on the march

[cyrano]

Or perhaps, like Moses, wandering in the desert for forty years.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/29/MNGLOLF5CF1.DTL&hw=echo+of+hussein&sn=001&sc=1000
New law in Iraq provides for the arrest and jailing of journalists who print stories which insult or ridicules the government or its officials. Some of the laws are apparently 'resurrected verbatim from Sadam Hussein's penal code'.

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

My strong suspicion is that eventually the administration will claim that, all along, our motivation for invading Iraq was to liberate the opressed people of Free Kurdistan.