" - - - forcing insurgent groups to choose between continuing the fight against a democratically elected government - - - "

That's a fallacy, as we all know. Isn't democracy by any definition I've seen.

Heck, the US even wants people appointed to parliament. That subverts any "election", AND is the quota system which the Republicans seem to hate in the US.

Note the perception that the US can control who is in parliament.

"Election officials insist that enthusiasm is also evident in Sunni areas. But concerns persist that the new constitution will be framed by a parliament dominated by Shiites and Kurds, at the expense of Sunnis.

"The prospect of such an outcome brought a flurry of reports that U.S. policymakers might coax Iraqi officials to set aside additional seats in the new parliament for Sunni representatives. The idea, however, brought a torrent of criticism from Shiite leaders.

"America wants to appoint another Governing Council," said Ali Smeisim, a spokesman for Moqtada Sadr, a Shiite cleric whose militia fought U.S. troops for six months last year. The Governing Council, which dissolved with the naming of an interim administration in June, was widely regarded as a puppet of the United States.

"If the Americans do this, that means the terrorists will announce their victory," said an official close to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the paramount Shiite leader in Iraq."