> Iraq needs better people than the Saddam regime or the current regime. It's very difficult to take this person seriously when he's trying to refer to Iraq's

> Iraq needs better people than the Saddam regime or the current regime. It's very difficult to take this person seriously when he's trying to refer to Iraq's current democratically elected government -- which has a minimum quota for women and minorities -- as a "regime," which refers to an authoritarian government or dictatorship[0]. Iraq's future is based on people being able to accept that we no longer have regimes and that we have democratically elected representatives, who can be voted in or out based on a popular vote. As long as people are not able to comprehend this concept and try to blame everything on a central figure -- much like they did to former Prime Minister Maliki -- then we will continue this cycle of ignorance. While Ala Bashir's artwork and history is something commendable, his political opinions on modern Iraq (being expressed through the Gulf mouthpiece[1] Al Jazeera for the last decade) should be considered as Pan-Arabist or neo-Ba'athist[2] rhetoric rather than the unbiased opinions of an Iraqi civilian. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime#Politics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime#Politics [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Editorial_independence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Editorial_independen... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba'athism#Neo-Ba.27athism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba'athism#Neo-Ba.27athism