More on Theocracy in Iraq

In the Comments section of a post on Alas, a Blog, I wrote this:

"I very seriously doubt that the feminist and pro-secular government Iraqis make up a majority of the population, particularly in the Shiite regions that we are strongly allied with. The fact of the matter is, if we are going to avoid a nasty Shiite insurrection to go with the Sunni one, we may have to make concessions like this.

"The neocons always wanted to portray Iraq as a nation of progressives and to claim that the vasst majority of Iraqis favored separation of mosque and state. We heard all sorts of polls and quotes supposedly confirming that...

"...The neocons will try to deny their mistake by claiming that no, no, the vast majority of Iraqis are classical liberals, they want secular democracy, women’s rights, etc., but the EVIL state department sold them out to a small minority of misogynists and fundamentalists. No, they were right all along about Iraq, but were betrayed by the evil state department."

Well, thanks to Clark Stooksbury, I now have two links that prove my thesis:

"after all, the drafters in Baghdad surely know that most Iraqis are against a sharia-dominated state, and the odds are that if they write such a document, they'll be rejected." - Michael Ledeen

"given the evidence (mentioned by Publius earlier) that Iraqi citizens are more liberal on the subject of religion than are their representatives here...This makes me wonder what the diplomats are thinking..." -Glenn Reynolds

Michael Ledeen also disparages our ambassador, Zal Khalilzad.

Yes, yes, it's those evil diplomats who are preventing Iraqis from becoming New Hampshire. Ahmad Chalabi said so.

That is all.