How do you like your “democracy” now?

Drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay Christopher Hitchens, in yet another of the near formulaic “clap louder”articles churned out by warbots desperately looking for someone, anyone to blame for the violent quagmire they instigated in Iraq, pens this whiny, delusionary bit:

Losing the Iraq War – Can the left really want us to? By Christopher Hitchens

The New York Times ran a fascinating report (subscription only), under the byline of James Glanz, on July 8. It was a profile of Dr. Alaa Tamimi, the mayor of Baghdad, whose position it would be a gross understatement to describe as "embattled." Dr. Tamimi is a civil engineer and convinced secularist who gave up a prosperous exile in Canada to come home and help rebuild his country. He is one among millions who could emerge if it were not for the endless, pitiless torture to which the city is subjected by violent religious fascists. He is quoted as being full of ideas, of a somewhat Giuliani-like character, about zoning enforcement, garbage recycling, and zero tolerance for broken windows. If this doesn’t seem quixotic enough in today’s gruesome circumstances, he also has to confront religious parties on the city council and an inept central government that won’t give him a serious budget.

Question: Why have several large American cities not already announced that they are going to become sister cities with Baghdad and help raise money and awareness to aid Dr. Tamimi?

I ask you, what part of you installed these “violent religious fascists” as the ruling power in Iraq with “elections you proclaimed as a purple-fingered tsunami of freedom”,  just like we warned over and over and over would happen don’t you understand?  These are your guys, Hitchens:

Baghdad Mayor Is Ousted by a Shiite Group and Replaced – New York Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 9 – Armed men entered Baghdad’s municipal building during a blinding dust storm on Monday, deposed the city’s mayor and installed a member of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite militia.

The deposed mayor, Alaa al-Tamimi, who was not in his offices at the time, recounted the events in a telephone interview on Tuesday and called the move a municipal coup d’état. He added that he had gone into hiding for fear of his life.

"This is the new Iraq," said Mr. Tamimi, a secular engineer with no party affiliation. "They use force to achieve their goal."

Yeah, that’s all Baghdad needs: an American “sister city.”