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Originally posted by Syrian Sister
the puppet regime has only one fate. Complete annihilation.
Originally posted by cosmokatt7
...It seems to me that the resistance in Iraq is very well organized....
And, therefore very well financed. Who could possibly be behind this...?
Perhaps, "the real Saddam Hussein"??!!
The American government did not pick the candidates the Iraqi citizens did when they voted.
But doesn't Iraq already have a government that was elected democratically?
In reality this government is just an assembly of the most right-wing reactionary sectarian Islamist groups. Its members were picked in advance of the invasion and in no way can it represent the people. This government is being based on ethnic and religious divisions, not on the bases on the concept of equal citizenship. In no way can it solve any of the problems of Iraq because it is part of the problem and part of the chaos, being part of the US agenda.
So why did the people vote for them?
The election took place under the control of militias all over Iraq, in the southern part armed militias such as Badir militia and Muqteda Alsadr's Militia who have been supported financially and politically by Iran...
In Kurdistan we have Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdish Democratic Party who are part of US politics in Iraq and serve the occupation. And in the central part the Islamic forces are really controlling the area... also remember the voting of people had many other reasons behind it and the story nobody is telling is that many people were called upon to vote by religious leaders. Others were threatened and bullied into voting by Fatwa's; others were told that if they didn't vote for so-and-so, their food rations would be taken away from them.
Originally posted by XyZeR
The American government did not pick the candidates the Iraqi citizens did when they voted.
Agreed, but you can't realy call those elections "democratic ", read the following:
From Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey intervieuw with Houzan Mahmoud, member of the political bureau of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq (WCPI), a cofounder of the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC) and representative of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq.
Originally posted by XyZeR
Anyone who believes the elections in Iraq were "democratic" in the sense we westerners are used to isn't realy informed well ihmo.
[edit on 4-8-2005 by XyZeR]
They were probably more 'democratic' than the two most recent US Federal Elections.
Sad to see someone takes the word of a communist truly sad. I have never seen one commi that agrees with anything democratic in nature.
But you go right on believing their trash.
Originally posted by Syrian Sister
when israelies and other countries where allowed to vote in it?
heh
Selections.