This is a democracy?

From the AP Wire on December 22, 2005 in a story concerning Sunni objections to the recent election in Iraq:

A senior member of the Shiite religious United Iraqi Alliance, the group that preliminary results show leading in the polls, said the protesters should accept the results.
"These statements will lead the country to new chaos," Ali al-Adib said. "Who can guarantee that when the elections are rerun they will not reject them again?"
Al-Adib, also a member of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, said the alliance now helping govern Iraq also had complaints.

Let me get this straight - a senior member of the political group which is leading in the elections is also a member of a group called Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq? ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAQ!!! 2,000 Americans have died to foster an ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAQ???

The words DEMOCRACY and ISLAMIC REVOLUTION are absolutely incompatible. This is not to say that the Muslim religion is incompatible with democracy, despite the current historic record. However, Islamic Revlotionaries are as likely to form a democracy as the KKK is to sponsor a Rap concert.

As an interesting side note, Ayad Allawi - the initial Prime Minister of post-Sadaam Iraq - has called the recent elections fraudulent. I don't know if he's right or just a sore loser, but it will be interesting to see how the Bush adminisration handles his claims. After all, they installed him as Prime Minister and insisted to the world that his credentials were impeccable and that he was just what the new Iraq needed. 5 to 1 says they will now marginalize him as a disaffected radical unfit to serve in the new "democracy." If we've learned one thing during the past 6 years its this - Anyone who doesn't tow the official Bush line is a TRAITOR and un-American, or in the case of Allawi, un-Iraqi. I guess we'll just toss him on the pile of propped-up despots who no longer serve American interests.