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I am not saying that democracy can never form without a history. It obviously has to have a starting point, but what will happen is we will drop Iraq and say, "here's democracy--try it out," and it won't work because they are clueless. England went through a very slow transition into representative government, English-Americans were used to the idea of being represented and being a part of the government; when we didn't get those rights, we revolted, which was really just another transition to the final product: democracy. European nations had been studying and applying Green and Roman culture to their own since the Renaissance.
Iraq--on the other hand--is going from one extreme directly to another, and it will not work, because they are starting with the finished product without all the prerequisites.
Third World countries who are "helped" by developed countries then give their resistance and terrorist groups one more excuse to terrorize: they have a puppet government, that is controlled by America the infidel.
This isn't important, but what I was meaning to say with Brazil was they were the only Latin American nation that didn't immediately try to be a republic; they became a monarchy. I don't know what they are now.
I say that our defying our mother country is slightly more serious than overthrowing a dictator because Iraq doesn't have to fight the most powerful nation and military in the world to succeed.