Iraq: The Massacres Continue as “Democracy-Building”.

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The US is destroying any hope for real democracy in Iraq by appointing thugs and criminals to high positions. The US has consistently stalled on one-person-one-vote elections in Iraq, “seeking instead to put democracy on hold until it is safely managed”, writes Salim Lone in the Guardian of London. The US is building dependence and subordination in Iraq. The US is building 14 permanent military bases in Iraq. To my knowledge not a single Iraqi wants the US to stay in Iraq. The mainstream media is silent on this issue of US domination.

The so-called “Western-style democracy-building” in Iraq has been contracted to US corporations such as the North Carolina Research Triangle International (RTI) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The NED promotes a “top-down” controlled democracy, in which few elites rule over the masses. Its chairman is the neoconservative, Vin Webber, who is signatory to the Project of the New American Century (PNAC), which has promoted the invasion and conquest of Iraq since 1997. It is promised a 100 percent increase in Congressional funding in George W. Bush's 2004 State of the Union address.


Sovereignty comes directly from the people; it is not something that the US can dictates by the power of tanks and helicopters gunship. The Iraqi Interim Government is a puppet government with no legitimacy or sovereignty. The so-called “prime minister” Allawi is a cheap thug, and the Occupation Arabic spokesman. Who is Allawi? Allawi and his gang are not talking on behalf of the Iraqi people. They have no support among the Iraqi people; they are foreigners. “Yesterday's speech was particularly embarrassing. stood there grovelling in front of the congress- thanking them for the war, the occupation and the thousands of Iraqi lives lost... and he did it all on behalf of the Iraqi people. It was infuriating and for maybe the hundredth time this year, I felt rage”, writes the Girl Blog from Iraq on September 24, 2004.

According to Thomas Carothers, director of Democracy Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The US is doing everything to derail the January 2005 promised “elections”. Allawi’s gang has an incentive to delay the poll so as to perpetuate their power.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6968.htm

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1. "elections"?

From the Naomi Klein article: http://harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

"But Bremer didn’t give up. International law prohibits occupiers from selling state assets themselves, but it doesn’t say anything about the puppet governments they appoint. Originally, Bremer had pledged to hand over power to a directly elected Iraqi government, but in early November he went to Washington for a private meeting with President Bush and came back with a Plan B. On June 30 the occupation would officially end—but not really. It would be replaced by an appointed government, chosen by Washington. This government would not be bound by the international laws preventing occupiers from selling off state assets, but it would be bound by an “interim constitution,” a document that would protect Bremer’s investment and privatization laws."