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Salam Pax's latest Guardian column has an account of communists and royalists both demonstrating to mark the coup that ended that monarchy. He said he marched with the communists, shook hands with the royalists, and found the whole thing inspiring. The fact that communists and royalists are able to express themselves freely in Iraq is ... a good thing, whatever one things of their ideologies. I don't expect it to last, but -- what happened to democracy? This is what it's supposed to look like!