The New Baghdad Triumvirate: Allawi, Negroponte and the NED
Bush's Democratic Charade in Iraq
by JIM TARBELL and ROGER BURBACH, CounterPunch

With the formation of the Iraqi Interim Government and the opening of the largest US embassy compound in the world, it has become apparent just what kind of democracy the United States is foisting on Iraq and the Arab world. It will be a democracy with controlled elections, a repressive state security apparatus, and a "free market" economy that favors US interests and the Iraqi economic elite. The two key figures anointed to carry out this democratic charade are the leader of the interim government, Iyad Allawi and the US ambassador, John Negroponte. Their backgrounds and credentials can hardly be described as democratic.

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