Sheep? it's called having faith. At least the Repubs can speak their minds without the fear of getting ousted by they're own party....they also don't have the media in they're back pockets....when was the last time your heard anything positive in Iraq? Because they're are plenty of positives!
I find the whole media in their back pockets argument weak. Should the media not tell us about the car bombs that blow up everyday? Should we not know about all the people killed nearly EVERYDAY?
The war is a friggin mess.
I hate to break it to you but democracy isn't going to take hold in the Middle East. We aren't changing 3000 years of a way of living in a few years of forced occupation. It won't happen.
Saddam was evil, no doubt about it but there are many many many more dictators around the world torturing and killing their citizens. We don't seem to care much about those oppressed people. For some reason liberating Iraq is of major concern to us. Go figure, especially considering the likelihood of that liberation working is nearly zero.