President Bush likes to pretend that Iraq is moving towards a free and peaceful and democratic society with a smiling leader duly elected by a free and good-looking populace.
Yet...
If you want to see how widely that is viewed as a joke, then read this article in which Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) "put out a call to have the prime minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki removed from his post" (Source)
How do you suppose talk like that would go over if, say, Canada's Premier Ministre Stephen Harper "put out a call to have the president of the United States George W. Bush removed from his post"?
Can you imagine the punditular indignation if some cold-blooded Canadian had the effrontery to suggest such a thing?
It is the enamel-toothed, helmet-haired ones that I feel sorry for. Pundits are having a difficult time believing we aren't "interfering" with the free, democratic, sovereign, and corner-turning state of Iraq without overt fantasy contradictions like this.
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For more on the term "corpocracy" see: http://www.wordspy.com/words/corpocracy.asp
and an interesting sidenote is the related (synonomous?) term, "corporatocracy:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
synonymous, I mean....
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