Comments on: Iraqi Referendum: Should We Stay or Should We Go?

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:26:10 +0000

Perhaps we should review the arguments pro and con on direct democracy one more time.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:53:20 +0000

Well, it's up to the host government (in each of the above cases) to ask us to stay or go. If they want their elected representatives to decide on their own, so be it. If they want to ask their constituents to guide them through a referendum, so be it.

Nothing new here. This could be done now, as it could have been done any time in the past by the government of any country where we have troops stationed.

It's not up to us to dictate how they might go about making such a decision. These suggestions seem a bit presumptuous to me.

By: Director Mitch

Director Mitch — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:23:58 +0000

We should also hold these elections in:

South Korea
Japan
Germany
Japan
Italy

And the other half dozen countries we have troops.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:37:33 +0000

The next question would it be a straight up popular vote, an electoral college version such as the constitution vote where 3 provinces could hold veto power (and is that veto for staying or going) or is it province by province where we can stay only in provinces that want us?

I like the idea also and would love to see it proposed by the Iraqi Parliament.