Unclear if Bush wants Iraq to select own government

Editor,

In 2003, President Bush made the decision to invade Iraq and overthrow a despotic ruler. The goal was to give the citizens of Iraq the opportunity to rule themselves in the manner they

preferred, which he assumed would be a democracy, modeled on the example of the U.S.

Now, in December, this same person, still president, has reportedly told a key Iraqi power broker that the U.S. is not satisfied with the progress of efforts to stop the sharp escalation of violence in Iraq.

If sectarian division and escalation of violence is what the Iraqi people want, what is Bush's problem with letting them have it just the way they want it? Is it possible that there is more to this picture than I am aware of?

Robert Gardiner

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