contemporaryyyyy

Iraq's New Government
In the year 2003 Ohio State University defeated the University of Miami in double-overtime in the Fiesta Bowl, 31-24, for the national Bowl Championship Series title. During this year, ten million people globally protested against the Iraq war and the biggest bank robbery occurred- about one billion was taken from Iraq’s Central Bank by Saddam Hussein. Just a few hours before this incident the United States began bombing Baghdad- this was the beginning of "Operation Iraqi Freedom". The United States purpose of this invasion was “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free Iraqi people”.(wikipedia) Numerous people were enlisted and assembled in Iraq to fight for freedom, terrorism, and oil. After many months of intense front-of-the-line battling our troops finally captured Saddam Hussein on December 13, 2003. President Bush made us believe the base of this combat was “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free Iraqi people”.(wikispace) After realizing that Iraq did not bear weapons of mass destruction and stopping terrorism by imprisoning Saddam Hussein, our nation still did not “free” Iraqi people until May 20, 2006. On October 15, 2005 a draft of Iraq’s permanent constitution was approved and elections for Council of Representatives were held. After approving a constitution, electing representatives, and selecting cabinet ministers, May 20, 2006 finally marked the transition of Iraqi Transitional Government to a Transitional Democracy. When our nation invaded Iraq they intended to free Iraqi citizens by setting up a democracy- but a democracy is voiced and approved by the people, not by the government. A democracy can not be forced upon a nation, after all democracy “is a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system”.(Random House)

Although the United States is trying to develop a government in Iraq that would resemble a democracy, our nation does not realize that our government is not exactly a democracy because of our actions. Because of this battle, we have resorted to wiretapping and by doing so we have reconstructed and situated our constitution and regulations so we can practice these actions. The Iraq war has caused us to invade into personal privacy and this idea was not formulated by the people, but by a higher power. How can we create a democracy in Iraq if our own government is unable to practice democracy correctly?