There is such a thing as a benevolent dictator. Could it happen in Iraq? Yes. Right now, it doesn't look like it is going to happen. As long as they are free from Saddam, and if they move back to a Dictatorship, one can hope that the next one actually treats all people equally. That is if they fall back to a dictaorship.
On a side note, since Japan was one of the last times the US installed a democracy in a country. It took 3 years until the US felt it was safe to remove troops from Japan. The move to a democracy was with the full blessing of the Emporer, whom the Japanese revered as a God. So what the Emporer said, went. Just keep that in mind when you wonder why it is taking so long. Right now in Iraq, there is no one person or set of people that the Iraqi's are able to look to for guidance. It hopefully will happen sooner than later.
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