The Iraqi Quagmire
Seems the Iraqis are rather impatient with us. We're not getting things done fast enough. So says this story from the Christian Science Monitor. And just what is it we're not doing fast enough? Restoring power and fixing the water system? Restoring law and order? Paving the roads? Rebuilding the infrastructure? Reviving the economy? Hunting down the Ba'athist remnants and killing off the foreign terrorists? No. We're not setting up a democracy fast enough.

Seems they want democracy, and they want it now.

Four months after the US occupied Iraq, citizens wonder when they will have a say in the new government.

Oh, you know that kind of sentiment has just gotta be causing heartburn in halls of tyranny power in Damascus, Tehran and Riyadh.