The purple finger revolution of January 2005 has proved only one thing: that the US media is capable of building something out of nothing.

By Scott Ritter

As the honeymoon period of the much-hyped 30 January elections in Iraq comes to an end amid the explosions of car bombs and continuous US military action, the harsh reality that these elections have failed to produce a government capable of governing, let alone govern in a fashion that resembles any notion of what a democracy should look like, comes crashing home.

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