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Is it time to bury the political process and begin the process of democracy?
On: Saturday 03/03/2012 8:16
Aqeel Abbas
in a way, everyone has become accustomed to what to be called "political process" a new Iraqi firm in a country gripped the changes, often negative. Policy differs from teams in Iraq to almost everything, on what the country, and its shape, and the identity of his opponents and his allies,
And ideas that should be run, and the injustices of history and concerns of its present and its future prospects and others. But they agree on one thing is the "political process" and the importance of continuing, despite the depth of disappointments .... At this moment, a moment Alafteraqat Iraq - Iraq's frightening, there is what brings bitter rivals such as Nuri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi, Kalhvaz on the "political process" like a piece of wood Iraq's only salvation may be riding the opponents of the country and are fighting them even drowning. Thus the political process: the need and importance of approaching an existential need for the nation itself, and became like to leave it out on the meaning of the National.
term emerged when the political process in the summer of 2003 and gradually established a central fact in the new Iraq, was characterized by a sufficiently useful and clarity. The dividing line between "Mthori" solutions of armed Islamists and nationalists refusing fully to American military presence and the realities on the ground and "wise" peaceful solutions of the politicians home and abroad, who insisted that the director of "occupation" is a political road map will lead to true independence is based on the formation of a new political system manages the country's trading on the basis of democratic power. This process seemed timely carrier and hope to resolve the dilemma of a broad power in modern Iraq directed by the latter fortified cellars capture the horror of police to public policy and maneuvers consistently protected the democratic institutions and neutrality. In that map the stations are generally clear and coherent and logical, that combined writing documents and the formation of institutions: the formulation of the law of the transitional and interim government and the election of a transitional parliament to write a permanent constitution and referendum election of the Parliament and the Government fixed periods of the constitutionality of specific, in order to build the armed forces and internal security professional and non-politicized maintain the integrity of the country and protect its political system to allow for finally ending the U.S. military presence in ... what gave this process the political legitimacy of the moral and streamed moral is to accept the broad public by, for rightly lined up the majority of Iraqis with the option of "wise" policy, not with the "rebels" arms . In the spring of 2008, the train of the political process has cut most of these stations with relative success, especially to serve the Iraqi state emerging internal threat most of the political process, when able, with the help of its allies, the Americans and the British, the marginalization of Altdaan fiercest of legitimacy and its ability to exercise its authority: al Qaeda and Shi'ite militias . May be the six-month period between spring 2008 and summer of 2010 the best period of the political process. During which, it was the country's security stability unprecedented since 2003, albeit relatively, and eased political differences and ferocity of conflicts arising from them, and continue to build the institutions of the state, and emerged on the horizon signs of popular and serious political to dismantle the political sectarianism and to proceed with the project of building a civil state. In the summer of 2010 it looked as if Iraq finally on the right track and that the political process was the right choice to lead the country (km was wonderful illusion that time). Then, at the end of that summer, came the election battle and explosions monthly grand targeting state institutions (the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Finance) to undermine the political and security together and restore the political process to the earlier stops made, stations of fear, mistrust and broken bone the other. When evaporated with the smoke of the explosions hopes Maliki renewed electoral plain of his presidency after shaking public confidence in managed file security, and when it became clear that Allawi has become a challenge electoral fierce after his success with the failure of the Maliki: building a political alliance and a wide, diverse and transient communities to contest the election, was the answer of the Shiite alliance Governor Almertab of losing power is to revive the ghosts of the Baath revolves around the controversial election and fears of sectarian conflict rather than the past record of government performance and future prospects. Time, ie, winter 2010, entered the political process Nfgaha dark current. Since that grim winter politically, has moved this process from the failure to another. Allawi was a distinguishing mark in the biggest failure, when the man tested is expected to win parliamentary elections, the depth of commitment to this process, the sense of winning the electoral and democratic circulation of power. Erbil since 2010 have been exhausted, the political process purposes cut it all the stations that were able to cut down. Is true that the achievements of the maximum did not exceed half-successes at best: the Constitution of adjacent the contradictions and thrives on uncertainty, and political life centered around the concern of communities and ambitious clans, armed forces and a government Taatkasemhma shares components and Qrapat ideology, region, tribe, and press Open afraid for their freedom threatened by deflation. Despite the disappointment of this chronic distress, there was a reasonable hope that he will, one day, repair the damaged half of these successes. But the only stop, and perhaps the decisive and final, which did not achieve the political process even half the usual success, but it failed in a fatal without hope of repair, and installation is the trading of power through democratic practice in a moment of true maturity. Overthrew the Erbil agreement to this principle in practice. Since that failure, the political process was unable to get out of the acute crisis had not been interrupted since the fall of 2009. A large part of this crisis in the legacy of that failure and the problems that emerged from and remained unresolved. Morally, demonstrated the political process because they live outside the legitimate her time, as they revolve around the interests of politicians and not the building. For the first time, not terrorism or insurgency, a key player in the crisis, the main The parties are the "wise" policy themselves. For the first time also become the political process itself is the problem, not the solution, after having drained the ongoing disputes and sterile lives of the people and burned their hopes, and stopped the time of the country and put out his soul. Short, painful, lost this political process of moral legitimacy and popular because it wastes the people and their interests, and lost their sympathy, and taken from their lives and their dreams gave them much more than. Iraq needs a democratic process transparent and clearly defined, and not a political process selfish and ambiguous goals. A vast difference between the two. The first purpose build democracy on the basis of documents and the state and its institutions, as opposed to the second harness documents and institutions for the benefit of the powerful, and cares for the interests of politicians and communities care more than the interests of the people and the country. It's time to bury the political process and to begin the process of democracy.
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