U.S. Promises 'Elaborate Security' for Iraq Vote (Negroponte)

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050123/ts_nm/iraq_usa_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

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Ambassador John Negroponte, appearing on U.S. television shows, said there was no "absolute guarantee" that all Iraqis eligible to vote would be able to next Sunday.


"But what I can tell you is that there are elaborate plans, that security measures are being taken ... and that I think in large parts of the country, the preponderance of the country, it will be safe for people to go and vote," he said on "Fox News Sunday."


Negroponte made the round of television appearances as al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi promised to disrupt the landmark election -- Iraq's first since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) -- in a warning intended to scare away voters.


Zarqawi, a shadowy Jordanian militant who tops America's wanted list in Iraq, berated the country's Shi'ite majority for embracing the election and urged Saddam Hussein's once-dominant Sunni minority to wage a holy fight against it.


His group's almost daily attacks -- including most of the deadliest suicide bombings of the past year -- have raised fears of a bloodbath during the election, Iraq's first since the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam.

[ClassWarrior]

1. That criminal fuck also said we were there...

...on the invitation of the Iraqi people.

NGU.

[GettysbergII]

5. It's getting to like that old joke people in the USSR would tell

Question: Why is the USSR still in Afghanistan?

Answer: They're trying to find the people that invited them there.

[Spazito]

2. Given they have NOT been able to provide security....

for anyone, anywhere except in portions of the green zone and then only for key US/UK people and their puppets and that security is provided by mercenaries not the military, he is, yet again, trying to blow smoke up the publics ass, imo.

[jmcgowanjm]

3. FoxNews just said Zarqawi is in Mosul

Now how would they know this-They didn't say.

It is clear for everyone that it is the resistance who is on
the offensive in Iraq. The intelligence chief of the Allawi
puppet regime, Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani, recently
stated that the resistance counts more than 200,000
active fighters and sympathisers, a figure, which
for propagandist reasons is surely lower than in reality, but it
is still higher than the number of occupation forces and
the “Iraqi” army altogether. This shows that no one, if he or
she wants to be taken seriously, can hide the fact that
the resistance is growing and succeeding in
Iraq.
Therefore, and especially at this moment, one should be
very much aware of all kinds of illusions about the
occupation, about spectacular ways to magically end it
without continuing on the successful road of armed
resistance. All these proposals involving the so-
called international community, which was just watching as
the Iraqis were suffering and being killed for 13 years under
the genocidal UN sanctions, or this or that institution, only
serve one single purpose: to save the US-led occupation of
Iraq from defeat, to hinder the Iraqi people from getting
their great victory: the liberation of Iraq.

http://www.fritirak.dk/artikler/english/articles/2005/0122-ck.htm

"All the trend lines we can identify are all in the wrong
direction," said Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution,
a Washington policy research organization. "We are not
winning, and the security trend lines could almost lead you
to believe that we are losing."

http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=iraq_war&Number=293296888#Post293296888

Live reports from downtown Baghdad and you'd think
they were in the middle of the desert-no electricity,
no water, no petrol. Watch out, something deadly
this way slouches.

Watch the price of oil, the direction of the DJIA
to gauge our foreign policy actions.

http://www.safehaven.com/article-2482.htm

[two gun sid]

4. Perhaps Negroponte's

"Death Squads for Democracy" will be the deciding factor in the upcoming elections.

[tuvor]

6. Elaborate security + no one to monitor the election =

oh, I don't know, something favourable to bush?

[cliss]

7. (loud buzzing sound)

bzzzzzt. I'm sorry John, you're wrong. The US will not provide "elaborate" security for the ordinary Iraqis to go vote on Jan. 30.

The word on the street in Baghdad is, "you show up at the voting booth, and you're dead". If you were an ordinary Iraqi, which promise would you trust? The one from the occupiers (namely you) or your own citizens?

Which group has prevailed so far? (as the beads of sweat form on Bush's forehead), Bush the enternal optimist has even acknowledged that the Iraqi elections "don't look good".

So STFU, John Dr. Death Negroponte.