You changed the system in a shallow way that people never felt justice. Things were like a joke and many apparently were not held accountable to their criminal actions with the former regime. So beside the question of justice your change of government did not sound like a real change and many pro past regime acted as if they can continue their path just with different name. They, in fact, did not even bother to hide that. I saw someone speaking about how the killing by western powers and Iraqi government at that time exceeded the killing during Saddam's ruling. The Pro Saddam appeared to be in parliament and in government positions like nothing really changed. I wonder did the change of government of Hitler also made with such level of low just prosecution? You acted like the person who does a surgery with extremely low level of disinfection then wonder about the complications afterwords.
Then came the issue of how to deal with applying democracy. There is a common Iraqi saying, which probably has its counterparts in other cultures, that if there were an international competition for wisdom words from common people I would have entered that competition with it. It has an amazing amount of psychology concentrated in it. The saying states that, in rough translation, fear the good person if he becomes hungry and fear the bad person if he becomes full. You may say, that is good but how can I know the good from the bad to apply that. The answer is yes, that could be very difficult but in a situation were you are changing a regime like Saddam's with all its immorality, to which group you think those who were on the side of such regime belong?
Like that military leader who burned the ships showing no path behind exists, you needed to burn the mental ships that tempt the evil persons to seek the old system by as much as possible not giving an opportunity for that which can occur by the simple showing of any weakness in action. I would say if you want justice and equality it is your lucky day; but if you want to mess things we can kick your behind and make you ultimately reach the same result. I wouldn't go after and beg anybody to participate in a democratic system. Instead I would say that democracy is what you will get, and when balancing with similar rights for others, it is the only thing you would get.
After giving democracy with protected rights, I wouldn't listen much to complaints of not sharing power that comes from deep refusal to accepting the essence of democracy.
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