This troubles me as well. We want to push free elections, but only if we approve of whom the elect. How were we not prepared for this possibility? The one thing I have always said, is that for all of Saddam's crap, he was fairly predictable as far as we were concerned. He valued his life too much to do anything so stupid for us to take him out (unless the request was turn over the entire country). A fundamentalist in control would be horrible news.
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