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It does kind of make a mockery of giving the newly liberated Iraqis freedom and democracy if what is really meant is that they only have freedom to chose a system of government imposed by the liberators.

To me this seems not so far removed from the old Soviet system where you could vote for who you liked as long as it was the Communist Party. Surely if the Iraqis want to be governed by an Islamist government, they should be allowed to vote for that option and the rest of the world should accept such a vote as a genuine expression of the Iraqi people's will.