Freedom to choose rule by the ayatollahs?

UK Guardian -- Demonstrations show many in the Shia majority reject western-style government

About 5,000 Shia Muslims - 20,000, according to one Arab television station - marched through Nassiriya, one of the bigger towns on the banks of the Euphrates, shouting: "No to America, No to Saddam".

Like many Iraqis, they are ecstatic that Saddam Hussein has gone but they do not want the US either. They do not refer to "liberation" but to "aggression".

One Nassiriya resident said the demonstrators wanted not western-style freedom but government by their ayatollahs.

When we liberated Kuwait, we promised new democratic reforms. Women still do not vote, the legislature has no power, and the majority in the legislature are Islamic fundamentalists.