AlertNet: Die Now, Vote Later

[drfemoe]

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Fantastic. I have a suggestion for phase two: P. Diddy, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of the self-described "Coalition of the Willing" should take their chartered jet and fly to Fallujah, where their efforts are desperately needed. But first they are going to need to flip the slogan from "Vote or Die!" to "Die, Then Vote!"

Because that is what is happening there. Escape routes have been sealed off, homes are being demolished, and an emergency health clinic has been razed – all in the name of preparing the city for January elections. In a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, U.S.-appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi explained that the all-out attack was required "to safeguard lives, elections and democracy in Iraq."

With all the millions spent on "democracy-building" and "civil society" in Iraq, it has come to this: If you can survive attack by the world's only superpower, you get to cast a ballot. Fallujans are going to vote, goddammit, even if they all have to die first.

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Is it any wonder that Iraqis are skeptical of the version of democracy being delivered to them by U.S. troops, or that elections have come to be seen not as tools of liberation but as weapons of war? First, Iraq's promised elections were sacrificed in the interest of George Bush's re-election hopes; next, the siege of Fallujah itself was crassly shackled to these same interests. The fighter planes didn't even wait an hour after George Bush finished his acceptance speech to begin the air attack on Fallujah, with the city bombed at least six times through the next day and night. With the U.S. elections safely over, Fallujah could be destroyed in the name of its own the upcoming elections.

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http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/20459/

[TaleWgnDg]

1. I've been wondering . . .

GWBush has won this election.

GWBush is now a "lame duck" president. Oh, yes he is.

GWBush has nuttin to lose.

So why doesn't GWBush merely drop the bomb on all his perceived "enemies" and really show the world his yeehaaawwww doctrine?

Shall Iraq be first? For Jesus, that is?!



This is the DU member still known as a DU insomniac. :hi:

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. 'Lame Duck' doesn't seem the right metaphor to me

since it implies he's somehow unable to do what he wants.

'Unleashed rabid dog' sounds better to me.