is it "democracy" when it takes a foreign military occupation to keep the regime in power?

If we're still there doing the fighting in 3 years I'd start to say your right, but you totally ignore the fact that the Iraqis are building an army, national guard and police forces from scratch. They are making big progress in taking over there own security, but they're not there yet.

You choose to ignore this obvious fact and will likely continue to do so.

You also ignore the fact that the election was transparent and open and that the current debates occuring in the Iraqi parliment are not being interfered with by the U.S.

The freedom of information and ideas Iraqis have now is something they never dreamed of under Saddam. Don't you think that is at least a good thing?