Lugar Says Democracy Tough Goal in Iraq

Lugar Says Democracy Tough Goal in Iraq
By WILLIAM C. MANN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Compromises necessary to fashion democracy in Iraq will make any post-Saddam Hussein government less than the model of freedom the Bush administration wants as an example for the Middle East, a leading senator said Sunday.

Even a limited democratic system will require "trying out for size how you get a religious regime and a secular and a democratic regime together, how you keep Kurds together, how you keep Iraq together, without civil war," said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.

In Iraq, "We are not an overwhelming force. We have not been accepted by the Iraqis," said Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"The acceptance is coming, through ... careful negotiations with specific people who are now providing security, knowing that America provides a very large protective shield for the whole country and for the economy," Lugar said.

Hard-won success, he said, "is going to require something other than perhaps the more extravagant ideas of a shining city on the hill, a beacon of hope for everybody demanding freedom."

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Successful men and women know how to set goals. And one of the fundamentals of goal setting is understanding if a proposed goal is obtainable.

How sad the House and Senate, made up primarily of successful business people, fell for Bush's clap-trap that the U.S. could impose democracy.

Now that the goal is obviously unobtainable, at least of those that voted for war have stopped to reconsider their support for Bush's goals. What Lugar should urgently design is a exit strategy.

That's one way of looking at a rat's nest of usurers, exploiters, shysters, barons, inheritors, yes-men.

Don't trip over your Franklin Planner, my friend.

but we can achieve it.

like hell you say!