Difficulty of a new Iraq democray

The invasion on May 20, 2003, launched the Iraq War, which is still ongoing. U.S. President George W. Bush declared the objective of the invasion was "to disarm Iraq of ,WWD, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorsim, and to free the Iraqi people.
The American government has promised since the early 1990s to replace a fascist regime run by Saddam Hussein by bringing liberal democracy to Iraq. This promise is the political equivalent of the military claims concerning weapons of mass destruction; that is to say, it has been so often and prominently repeated that, to keep faith with the U.S. government’s word, something in the area of democratic reform must be tried. Moving, therefore, with all deliberate speed, the new American proconsul in Baghdad has recently convened an unofficial meeting of a thirty-five-person Political Advisory Council, a first public step toward some form of democracy in Iraq.
We suggest referring to our previous articles for NMIRI, on May 8, 2003 and June 4, 2003. In those pieces we predicted that a communitarian democracy would be the desired form for governing a country as deeply divided internally as Iraq. We assumed that keeping Iraq intact as a countervailing force against Iran politically and Saudi Arabia economically was the primary American geopolitical goal for the post-war Near East. We see no reason to change our opinion on this matter; indeed, the events of the last five weeks have only confirmed it.
It is hard enough to establish a democracy in our own country let alone another country. But it is very possible, it will be hard but it will be rewarding if we can do it.The hard part on forming a new democracy is trying to make everyone happy. It will never make everyone happy, but your job is to make most happy.

America Representative vs Russia Communism

The Government in America during the Cold War was a representative democracy. A representative democracy is when the people of the state elect one person so that they can represent them. The representative democracy protects the rights of the minority but also keeps the rights of the minority.The Government in russia during the Cold War was Communism.A communism is basically when the government controlls everything and also they tax an outragouse amount. communism started as a international revolutionary movement originated in the first world war. The socialist parties in russia and also europe where split by the issues of war and the russian revolution.The Soviet Union wanted to spread Communism in Eastern Europe and create a "buffer zone" of friendly governments as defense against Germany. In 1946, with Eastern Europe under Soviet control and influence, Europe was divided into a West and East.In June 1947, the Marshall Plan was put into effect in order to stop the Russians from influencing any of the weakened western powers. During the time the United States sent massive economic aid to Europe democracies to help rebuild. Billions of dollars were spent to help countries recover quickly and to reduce the influence of Communism. This plan helped to restore West Germany and rebuild it as a new ally in America's fight against Russia. Russia refused the aid of the Marshall Plan and, as a result, East Germany was not completely rebuilt. This lack of reconstruction showed through even after the reunification. The German economy after reunification took a big hit, because it had to pay for all the reconstruction that the Communists never did.

Thomas Jetterson

I think Thomas Lefferson is the most responsable foe the form of our government because: Thomas Jefferson wished to be remembered for three achievements in his public life. He had served as governor of Virginia, as U.S. minister to France, as secretary of state under George Washington, as vice-president in the administration of John Adams, and as president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. On his tombstone, however, which he designed and for which he wrote the inscription, there is no mention of these offices. Rather, it reads that Thomas Jefferson was "author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia" and, as he requested, "not a word more." Historians might want to add other accomplishmentsfor example, his distinction as an architect, naturalist, and linguistbut in the main they would concur with his own assessment.
Jefferson was born at Shadwell in what is now Albemarle County, Va., on Apr. 13, 1743. He treated his pedigree lightly, but his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, came from one of the first families of Virginia; his father, Peter Jefferson, was a well-to-do landowner, although not in the class of the wealthiest planters. Jefferson attended (1760-62) the College of William and Mary and then studied law with George WYTHE. In 1769 he began six years of service as a representative in the Virginia House of Burgesses. The following year he began building Monticello on land inherited from his father. The mansion, which he designed in every detail, took years to complete, but part of it was ready for occupancy when he married Martha Wayles Skelton on Jan. 1, 1772.
Jefferson's reputation began to reach beyond Virginia in 1774, when he wrote a political pamphlet, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Arguing on the basis of natural rights theory, Jefferson claimed that colonial allegiance to the king was voluntary. "The God who gave us life," he wrote, "gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
Elected to the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, Jefferson was appointed on June 11, 1776, to head a committee of five in preparing the Declaration of Independence. He was its primary author, although his initial draft was amended after consultation with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams and altered both stylistically and substantively by Congress. Jefferson's reference to the voluntary allegiance of colonists to the crown was struck; also deleted was a clause that censured the monarchy for imposing slavery upon America. The Declaration of Independence made Jefferson internationally famous.
In the final 17 years of his life, Jefferson's major accomplishment was the founding (1819) of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He conceived it, planned it, designed it, and supervised both its construction and the hiring of faculty.
The university was the last of three contributions by which Jefferson wished to be remembered; they constituted a trilogy of interrelated causes: freedom from Britain, freedom of conscience, and freedom maintained through education. On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson died at Monticello.

representative over Pure Democracy

Why did America end up with a Representative Democracy instead of a Pure Democracy?

A Representative democracy is founded on the principles of popular sovereignty. Where as a Pure Democracy is a democracy in which the power to govern lies directly in the hands of the people rather than being exercised through their representatives. The Representatives of a person running for president organizes everything for what the say a election period. They have to go in the peoples interest but they still have to disagree with some people.
Representative government makes it possible for us to have a better balance between geographic areas and populations. The House is composed of representatives who are elected according to population. The Senate is composed of representatives who are elected according to geographic area. If both houses of Congress were elected according to population, the states with the most cities would be able to put their own self-interest ahead of the states that contribute most with mining, agriculture, and forestry. If a purely democratic national poll were taken on every issue, the foregoing problem would be greatly magnified.
The main strength of the system of representative democracy is that it makes provision, through the Constitution, law and political institutions, for limitations on the powers which are exercised by governmental authorities as well as by private associations and groups. It provides institutional checks and balances. A pure democracy is the worst form of dictatorship, so our forefathers chose representative government which makes us a republic - not a democracy. Our enemies and those who listen to them attempt to make us believe that we live in a democracy. These same people want us to believe that we will be better off without the electoral college - so that solutions to all issues are decided by popular vote. If we were to move in that direction, life here would become even more intolerable with more laws enacted more quickly and more restrictions placed upon us. Freedom today is curtailed excessively by laws and bureaucracies. With even more curtailing of our freedom, we would be moving closer and closer to the situation facing the Russians before their more recent revolution.