On the FFF blog, Bumper Hornberger wrote:
In light of the U.S. government’s profound commitment to democracy in Iraq, how about an immediate up-or-down vote among the Iraqi people on the following proposition: “Should the U.S. government stay or leave?”
All U.S. officials . . . could campaign freely among the Iraqi people, explaining to them why it’s important to keep U.S. military forces in Iraq . . . . They could even demonstrate the virtues of American democracy by telling Iraqi voters what they tell American voters: that if they vote the wrong way, they won’t get any more federal funds.
What could be more democratic than that? In fact, how about having the same vote right here at home?