Is PM of Iraq Asking for Election Delay?

That's the conjecture today after the governor of Baghdad was assassinated. But Bush apparently told him no. Bush, of course, says this is important that the "will of the Iraqi people" be expressed. But this isn't about the Iraqi people at all. The only true candidates are the ones in Bush's back pocket. If someone got elected there who wasn't willing to be a shill for Washington, we'd get rid of him right fast.

This is the kind of "democracy" George Bush brings to Iraq. Not liberation of the people from a despot but liberating the country of its oil and other resources.