Everything has gone well, couldn't have been planned or executed better.

Iraqis are almost universally grateful for the lack of basic services. The few ingrates are Saddam loyalists or people who are just trying to grab power from the US.

And at any given moment in most of the country a bomb ISN'T exploding.

What a wonderful world in which to live.

Arf

Oh, yes. In the US elections of 1864 voters had a choice - who they could "vote" for wasn't pre-determined by an occupying military power.

The purpose of the election was to choose the direction the country would move, not to legitimize a puppet government so foreigners could continue the occupation of the country.

Big differences.