The lesser evil in Iraq?

The young woman in Baghdad known as "River" has just written about the sad choice her country has to make between religious fundamentalists and US puppets. Toward the end of the blog, she writes:

"More people are going to elect this time around- not because Iraqis suddenly believe in American-imposed democracy under occupation, but because the situation this last year has been intolerable. Hakim and Ja’affari and their minions have managed to botch things up so badly, Allawi is actually looking acceptable in the eyes of many. I still can't stand him. (Note: She is talking here about the 'Unified Iraqi Coalition': Hakim, Ja’affari and various other pro-Iran fundamentalists, in addition to Sadrists.)

"Allawi is still an American puppet. His campaign posters, and the horrors of the last year, haven’t changed that. People haven’t forgotten his culpability in the whole Fallujah debacle. For some Iraqis, however, he’s preferable to Hakim and Ja’affari after a year of detentions, abductions, assassinations and secret torture prisons.

"There’s a saying in Iraq which people are using right and left lately, and that I've used before in the blog, “Ili ishuf il mout, yirdha bil iskhuna.” He who sees death, is content with a fever. Allawi et al. seem to be the fever these days…"


Source:  http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/