Re: This is what the animals we're at war with do
- From: Henry <9-11@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:27:37 -0400
Fletis Humplebacker the humanid wrote:
But we are winning.
The bu$h regime is losing badly in every sense. You're watching
too much Faux news and you're not thinking for yourself. Don't underestimate the resolve and courage of people who are defending
their country and their freedom from an unprovoked attack and
occupation by a foreign invader. bu$h's version of Iraq is far,
far worse than even the neocons' former friend and ally Saddam's.
A democratically elected government is in place getting the ball
rolling.
You can't have a democracy when the "elections" are monitored
and funded by a foreign invader that is illegally occupying
your country.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0118-32.htm
Published on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
Iraq Elections: Farce of the Century
by Felicity Arbuthnot
Registration for expatriate Iraqis to vote in the Iraq elections began
on Monday in fourteen countries - Australia, Britain, Canada, Denmark,
France, Germany, Iran, Jordan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Syria, Turkey,
the United Arab Emirates and the United States and runs until January
23. However, according to a renowned expert on international law,
Sabah Al Mukhtar, the London-based President of the League of Arab
Lawyers, the election is not alone fatally flawed, it is illegal.
"Under the Vienna Convention, an occupying force has no right to
change composition of occupied territories socially, culturally,
educationally or politically. This election was based on the laws laid
down by former 'Viceroy' American Paul Bremer and is entirely
unconstitutional. Bremer personally appointed the overseers for the
election", says Al Mukhtar, thus, far from 'free and fair' and
heralding Iraqi 'democracy' they are entirely engineered by Bush's man.
Further, says Al Mukhtar the names of those standing for election are
not widely publicized, many names are indeed unknown and little or no
manifestos have been published. However, what is publicized are the
names and addresses of all who register to vote, they are displayed -
in Iraq and all voting centers abroad - at all polling centers. This
is simply and purely 'intimidation' says Al Mukhtar, it will
"encourage some and discourage others - disclosing names and addresses
is highly dangerous, no one will be safe within or without polling
stations, now or later," he contends. Intimidation needs no
encouragement. Nadia Selim, from Notholt, Middlesex recounts in the
Independent how her family in Hay Al Jamia in west Baghdad a mixed
Sunni and Shiite neighborhood were planning to vote in spite of the
dangers - until they were visited by their local shopkeeper. He
requested they hand over their ration books for "safe keeping". The
ration books are the means of identity for voters. Gunmen had visited
him and ordered him to collect all ration books in the neighborhood.
The family refused his request. Later he returned sobbing and begged
them not to condemn his children to death, reluctantly they gave in.
One can only speculate how widely similarly intimidating actions are
being replicated throughout Iraq.
Further says Al Mukhtar no one knows who has drawn up the electoral
lists and on what they are based. "I am an Iraqi and entitled to vote,
but no one has contacted me." As a prominent and internationally well
known Iraqi he can hardly have been overlooked one wonders how many
other Iraqis who are hardly likely to have voted for puppet "Prime
Minister" Allawi and his gang have been similarly "overlooked."
Further, allegation of intimidation of Iraqi expatriates abroad seems
to be borne out by the fact that of an estimated seventy thousand
Iraqis living in the north of England, just three hundred and fifty
have so far registered to vote, according the the Chair of the
Manchester based Iraq Solidarity Campaign Hussein Al Alak. A strange
reluctance in some cities to hold the elections in public building
also appears to have crept in. Manchester Town Hall declined as a
venue on the basis that there were too many weddings being held there
on polling day. When the wily Al Alak checked, there was, in fact just
one booked. 371 Oldham Road has now been designated in an area
entirely dominated by the BNP. In Glasgow polling is inexplicably
listed at two private houses, 71 Holland Street and 94 Elmbank Street.
Where the external votes will be counted and by whom and under what
independent monitoring body is unannounced and unknown says Al
Mukhtar. Further he adds that legally election must be 'possible, fair
and reasonable' - none of which apply in the chaos of occupied Iraq
where votes are also being bought and even Iyad Allawi - who recently
tried to buy favors from journalists with hundred dollar bills in
brown envelopes - is complaining of being intimidated in spite of
being surrounded by US soldiers and tanks. Oh, and the only
'independent' monitoring of the elections within Iraq are being
carried out from Jordan - twelve hundred kilometers away. No wonder
Allawi has kept his British passport and his mansion in leafy Surrey
as insurance.
Further, it is is not, as widely reported, just the Sunnis who have
boycotted the elections. The Iraq National Foundation Conference
comprises of prominent Shiite, Sunni, Pan-Arabists and Marxists. They
have turned their back on the whole process due to the absence of an
international body to oversee the proceedings.
Further trouble in paradise has broken out in the Jordanian capital,
Amman, between the International Organization for Migration - who
control overseas voting on behalf of Out of Country Voters. The IOM
has stated that Israelis of Iraqi origin are eligible to vote. Asma
Khader, Jordan Government spokeswoman and Minister for Culture, says
Israel based Iraqis voting in Jordan is quite simply 'out of the
question.' In Baghdad the Independent Electoral Commission's Farid
Ayar also stated that those with Israeli papers would be barred from
voting. Jordan is the nearest country designated as a voting point, to
Israel. Further, looking at the list of countries where Iraqis can
vote and the vastness of say, America, Canada and the US, many Iraqis
will have to invest in an airline ticket to vote - even those resident
in Ireland will have to travel to the UK.
Intimidation is not alone rife for voters, from Basra, Iraq's
beautiful battered southern city, to Mosul in the north and at
virtually every designated polling station in Iraq, electoral
committees have fled in terror - in Mosul the entire seven hundred
left - polling stations have been bombed, burned and officials
murdered. In Allawi's Alice in Wonderland world, he has, he says,
devised the most stringent security tactics to ensure safety on
polling day. He'd be wise to implement them forthwith - if they exist.
To add to the joy of Iraqis liberated from electricity, clean water,
largely too scared to venture out, they are also to become a nation of
hostages for three days before and during polling day. Borders will be
closed, phones disconnected, mobiles rendered useless - and US other
forces already murderous and unaccountable will be able to run riot
and spill blood at will with not the slightest chance of the world
knowing in this four day suspension of any semblance of 'freedom and
democracy.' Cars will not be allowed near any polling stations so even
those prepared to risk cueing to be blown up will certainly not risk
walking to do so. 'Possible, fair and reasonable' the elections are
not. A farce of historic proportions they certainly are.
--
http://911research.wtc7.net
http://www.st911.org
Here's what happens to steel framed buildings exposed
to raging infernos for hours on end.
http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr69c.html
On 9-11-01, WTC7, a 47 story steel framed building, which
had only small, random fires, dropped in perfect symmetry
at near free fall speed as in a perfectly executed controlled
demolition.
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/videos.html
http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html
http://wtc7.net/articles/FEMA/WTC_ch5.htm
"You're doin' a heckuva job, Brownie!" - bu$h, a few days
before his FEMA chief, Micheal Brown was forced to resign
because of his gross incompetence.
"The tools that enable Cuba to save lives and preserve
human dignity during hurricanes are socialist values
and organization." - Dr. W.T. Whitney Jr
Ever wonder who benefits from the 300 MILLION
U.S. taxpayer dollars spent each DAY in Iraq?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0223-08.htm
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=21
"They are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And
there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to
take... men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons
who are capable of any atrocity... they respect no laws of
warfare or morality."
-bu$h describing his own illegal invasion of Iraq.
http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.truthout.org/
http://www.prohibitioncosts.org/
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/
http://counterpunch.org/
http://responsiblewealth.org/
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...
.
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