Your model democracy in Iraq: and the puppet government versus the puppet opposition

"he actions came amid growing concerns that Mr. Maliki, who is backed by the United States, is using force and other measures to stifle this country’s democracy.  Officials for the Iraqi Nation Party and the Iraqi Communist Party said in interviews that dozens of armed security forces had come to their offices in Baghdad on Sunday, two days after nationwide protests calling for better services.  Although the parties do not have any seats in Parliament, they are outspoken critics of the government and helped to organize the protests in Baghdad.  Mithal al-Alusi, the leader of the Iraqi Nation Party and a former member of Parliament, said officials from Iraq’s federal police force, on orders from Mr. Maliki’s office, arrived at his office on Sunday and ordered him to leave.  Although the Communists were told their buildings were being requisitioned for government use, Mr. Alusi said he had received no explanation for why he was being evicted. He said he would try to persuade Mr. Maliki and his cohorts to reconsider the order."  It is hilarious that the New York Times would even bother to cover the one-member party of Mithal Allusi--who is better known as the only Iraqi to support relations with the Zionist entity.  In the last puppet elections, Allusi put his idea of relation with Israel to the test.  He ran and won...not a single seat in parliament despite what people have observed to be as a very well-funded campaign.