This is apparently what we're fighting for in Iraq. How is it the neocon bloggers can explain how the Mayor of Baghdad can be so easily removed from power via force in a so-called democratic Iraq where things are supposed to be getting better?!?

Mayor of Baghdad Is Deposed; Insurgents Kill 4 U.S. Troops

By JAMES GLANZ
Published: August 10, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 10 - 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.

In continuing violence, the United States military announced today that four American soldiers were killed on Tuesday and six others were wounded when insurgents attacked a patrol near Baiji in northern Iraq. Two Iraqi policemen and four civilians were killed in a suicide car bombing today in western Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said.

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."

The group that ousted him insisted that it had the authority to assume control of Iraq's capital city and that Mr. Tamimi was in no danger. The man the group installed, Hussein al-Tahaan, is a member of the Badr Organization, the armed militia of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, known as Sciri.

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I guess George Bush would regard this as "Mission Accomplished." 1,842 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq so that we could have coups in Baghdad.