Democracy in Iraq is a farce. How do we know this? Because we've been busy trying to set up a military dictatorship. For what purpose? Why, to protect the American military bases that the locals don't want there.

Mainly, they're Air Force bases and, like all USAF installations around the world, being outfitted with golf courses and all the amenities of modern life, from which the local population (and their sheep) are shut off.
Which is why the resistance keeps lobbing grenades and shoulder-fired missiles and burying IEDs in the roadways that bring in supplies (mainly fuel).
But, it's the attacks on the various cities (Fallujah, Baghdad, and now Mosul) that tells us they're setting up a military dictatorship with checkpoints and I.D. requirements. It's walling in Baghdad neighborhoods that tells us that a military occupation is being organized to be handed over to Shia control, whenever the US moves out.
You'd think that military rule and democracy would be incompatible. But Iraq is proving that wrong. The selection of jailers can obviously be democratically arranged.