This Sounds Familiar

Today's USA Today has an interesting story of secular political groups struggling to keep down the influence of religious fundamentalists. The ACLU or Americans United for the Separation of Church and State vs. the GOP? Nope, it's the ongoing struggle for democracy in Iraq. The influence of the religious parties in occupied Iraq are so egregious that "Iraqi politics under the U.S. occupation are worse than Saddam, they say, creating a situation in which religious factions fuel violence and ordinary Iraqis suffer." What a success story to show the rest of the Middle East.