erm investments which reaped a successful harvest). Such a process, in order to be successful, must be organized and methodical.
             The first step, after deciding that Iraq will have a democratic government, is to decide how its institutions will function. Given that Iraq has many diverse interests and ideological foundations, a system which will prosper must allow such cultural distinctions to function in an environment of interdependency.
             This being said, Iraq's new government will be federalist in nature. This system gives the diverse regions a chance to create individualistic states which will tend to cater to their particular needs while still being under the control of a national government which will promote widespread education, economic development, building of infrastructure, and military protection. The national government must be strong in order to prevent fragmentation of regional governments. In the future, the role of the national government could foreseeably be lessened, but until Iraq has a strong economic foundation backed
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