With the near-certain victory of al-Sistani's faction in the Iraqi election, it's becoming quite clear that an Islamic theocracy will rise in Iraq. I wonder how democratic that will be when there's so many religious and secular factions in that nation. Vice President The Penguin doesn't even know:
Vice President Cheney, on Fox News Sunday, cautioned against jumping to conclusions about what kind of document Iraq's Transitional National Assembly will write. He indicated the United States plans a hands-off approach. "We need to step back a bit now," Cheney said. "The bottom line for everybody to remember here is, this is not going to be, you know, an Iraqi version of America. This is going to be Iraqi."
Full article at USA Today. Does this mean that a "free and democratic" Iraq is off the table? When even the bottom shelf war justification looks tenuous...