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Re: Another horrific story out of Fallujah
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Mon, 5 Apr 2004 15:45:59 GMT
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Do we act as the voters of Spain and give in to the demands of the murdering
terrorists?
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We should definitely act as the voters of Spain! Let’s all vote to remove
our deceitful, immoral, imperialistic, war-mongering administration from
office.
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Or do we stand resolute, committed to completing the task we set out to
accomplish just over a year ago?
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If I understand Dubya’s agenda, he’ll be evacuating on June 30th out of fear.
Granted, troops will remain in Iraq, but the withdrawal-at-all-costs is a
cowardly tactic to protect Dubya’s re-election campaign at the expense of
innocent Iraqis and Americans.
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Worst of all: he’ll get away with it.
As a related aside, this was in Saturday’s
Guardian (ie
before yesterday’s uprising):
I have gone to the mosques and street demonstrations and listened to Muqtada
al-Sadr’s supporters shout “Death to America, Death to the Jews”, and it is
indeed chilling. But it is the profound sense of disappointment and betrayal
expressed by a pro-US businessman running a Pepsi plant that attests to the
depths of the US-created disaster here. “I’m disappointed, not because I hate
the Americans,” Khamis tells me, “but because I like them. And when you love
someone and they hurt you, it hurts even more.”
When we leave the bottling plant in late afternoon, the streets of US-occupied
Baghdad are filled with al-Sadr supporters vowing bloody revenge for the attack
on their newspaper. A spokesperson for Bremer is defending the decision on the
grounds that the paper “was making people think we were out to get them”.
A growing number of Iraqis are certainly under that impression, but it has far
less to do with an inflammatory newspaper than with the inflammatory actions of
the US occupation authority. As the June 30 “handover” approaches, Bremer has
unveiled a slew of new tricks to hold on to power long after “sovereignty” has
been declared.
Bremer passed yet another law further opening up Iraq’s economy to foreign
ownership, a law that Iraq’s next government is prohibited from changing under
the terms of the interim constitution. Bremer also announced the establishment
of several independent regulators, which will drastically reduce the power of
Iraqi government ministries. For instance, the Financial Times reports that
“officials of the Coalition Provisional Authority said the regulator would
prevent communications minister Haider al-Abadi, a thorn in the side of the
coalition, from carrying out his threat to cancel licences the coalition awarded
to foreign-managed consortia to operate three mobile networks and the national
broadcaster.”
...and some say this war is about “freedom”.
Scott A
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello wrote regarding (URL) link>. (...) If I understand Dubya's agenda, he'll be evacuating on June 30th out of fear. Granted, troops will remain in Iraq, but the withdrawal-at-all-costs is a cowardly tactic to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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