Opinion: A Messy Democracy?

We are in the third year of the invasion of Iraq by American troops and their alliance, as well as the fall of Saddam's regime. Everyone is closely following the complex Iraqi political and security situation because it is a major player in a stable Middle East. Let's review the situation from the beginning: The war started on March 20 and ended on April 9, 2003. Bush declared that major combat operations had ended on May 1. At the same time, the situation was not stable in Iraq and after a few months a military leader commanded the country. He was replaced by civilian leader Paul Bremer, who supervised the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some major mistakes were made during its rule; the biggest was the decision to dissolve all military and security establishments, which created a security vacuum. In July, 2003, the governing council was formed. This was the starting point for sectarianism because the council was formed based on ethnicities and sects. The duty of the governing council was to draft the Transitional Administrative Law. Ayad Allawi's interim government ran Iraq from June 2004 until the national elections in December 2004, after which the national assembly was formed. The new permanent constitution was drafted and voted on in October 2005. The majority of Iraqis voted in favour of the draft, which was followed by the national election that drew wide participation. Now there is a national assembly in power for four years. Yet all of these events were hampered over the last three years by corruption in many government bodies, instability, and unemployment. Does democracy deserve this high price that Iraqis are paying, and all of this bloodshed that the politicians have not been able to stop? Is this the cost of a real democracy? Or is this mess what comes with democracy?