There wasn't a genuine effort to slowly go across the country and ask the people what type of political system or what type of system works here. There was a design a plan that had been sketched up as I mentioned vaguely throughout the 1990s that was simply implemented in a green zone away from society. To this day you know the green zone has opened to some extent but international many international aid many international diplomats working in Iraq still don't go and meet with Iraqi society.

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