Ne razumes se ti u demokratiju.

Kao sto je ljubav izmisljena da bi se zene lakse i brze skinule, tako je i demokratija izmisljena da bi se lozare iz zemalja treceg sveta lozile na to. (stim sto je ovo prvo diskutabilno, za ovo drugo sam siguran)

Iraq
15 killed on Iraq 'Day of Rage'
Fifteen people were killed in violent clashes with police across Iraq, and over a hundred injured, in a 'Day of Rage' called to protest against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government.
Fifteen people were killed in violent clashes with police across Iraq, and over a hundred injured, in a 'Day of Rage' called to protest against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government.
Smoke billows from a burning building during clashes at an anti-government protest in the northern city of Mosu Photo: AFP
7:54PM GMT 25 Feb 2011

Clashes between security forces and demonstrators in the cities of Mosul and Tikrit each left five people dead, while two others died in the northern town of Hawija. Two other demonstrators were killed in Samarra, while a 15-year-old boy died in the mostly Kurdish town of Kalar in central Diyala province.

Protesters set fire to provincial government offices in Mosul and the city council building in Hawija, as well as two official buildings in Fallujah, west of Baghdad.

In the port city of Basra, the provincial governor resigned after 3,000 protesters gathered

More than 5,000 people thronged Baghdad's Tahrir Square, with angry crowds throwing stones, shoes and plastic bottles at riot police and soldiers who were blocking off a bridge connecting the site to Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, home to the US embassy and parliament. The protesters overturned concrete barriers, and set four government buildings on fire.

Security was deployed in force, imposing a citywide vehicle ban after Mr al-Maliki claimed al-Qaeda insurgents and loyalists of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein were behind the demonstrations.

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Following the conclusion of Friday's protests in Baghdad, Mr Maliki said in a statement that Iraqis had behaved responsibly, and said the country "did not give a chance to terrorists to take action."

The protesters were calling improved public services, more jobs and less corruption, and some for broader political reforms. Rated the fourth-most corrupt country in the world by Transparency International, Iraq suffers from poor electricity and water provision, as well as high unemployment nearly eight years after the 2003 US-led invasion.

Sabah al-Saadi, an MP who turned up at the Baghdad protest, was met with shouts and jeers, with one protester asking: "Why are MPs taking millions of dinars (thousands of pounds) in salaries?" "Why are you taking so much money when we have no money?"

But attendance at the Baghdad protest, which had been expected to draw tens of thousands, was partly muted by the fact that several religious leaders asked their followers not to attend. Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in particular, said his partisans should give the government, of which his bloc is a key member, six months to improve its record.

Friday's rally, like others across the region, was largely organised on social networking website Facebook and billed as Iraq's "Day of Rage," in reference to events in Egypt that forced out President Hosni Mubarak.

Mostly young men gathered in Tahrir Square, which shares the name of the square in Cairo where Egyptians rallied to overthrow Mubarak.

"It is now eight years, and they have done nothing for us. Stop the words, we want action!" said Ammar Raad, 33.

In a bid to head off protests, Iraq had slashed politicians' pay, increased food funds for the needy and delayed a planned law that would raise import tariffs and, thus, prices of goods in markets.

Telegraph