Your purple finger fever could be a bad rash

'Terrified at the prospect of an Iraq ruled by Iraqis, former US Envoy Paul Bremer designed elections that gave the US-friendly Kurds 27 percent of the seats in the National Assembly even though they make up as little as 15 percent of the population. And since the US-authored interim constitution requires an absurdly high majority for all major decisions, the Kurds now hold the country hostage. The US-Kurdish alliance has handed Washington a backdoor veto over Iraq's democracy.' More here. I remember how I felt when I found out the toppling of Saddam's statue by 'Iraqis' was a U.S. propaganda stunt.