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WAR WITH IRAN CANCELLED?
Comment by Larry Ross, December 24, 2005
Wouldn't it be nice if the Bush Administration got the message that their
stooges lost the Iraq election and the U.S. obeyed the democratic will
of the Iraq people and went home. I hope that Robert Scheer is right in
his analysis - that the U.S. will abandon the grandiose neocon plan for
dominating the middle east, claim victory in the Iraq war, and go home.
Although his analysis is excellent, and contains vitally important information
which may be suppressed by the corporate media in NZ, UK, USA and Australia,
I fear his conclusions about U.S. withdrawal are wrong.
The U.S. has invested hundreds
of billions of dollars in a totally criminal enterprise - one of the greatest
cons in history.
It demonstrates the power of an unscrupulous Administration, harnessing
the various propaganda apparatus of the state and a co-operative media
willing to join in deceiving the public and the world.
The U.S. has built permanent military bases with a view to dominate the
area and expand the Iraq war to Iran and Syria and perhaps other states
in the area. Also, Bush hates losing. If he abandon's the neocon plan,
he'll be losing big time.
I really don't think the U.S. will give up their huge investment and ambitions
and be leaving Iraq any time soon. A civil war situation - between the
Shiites and Sunnis - may be contributed to by U.S. actions - and may become
one of the excuses Bush uses to continue wage war in Iraq and continue
the neocon middle east plan. I hope I'm wrong, but I think the worst is
still to come.
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Iran's
Victory Revealed in Iraq Election
By Robert Scheer, AlterNet,
December 21, 2005
For the Bush White House, the good news from Iraq just never stops. But
the joy that President Bush has expressed over the country's latest election,
though more restrained than his infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, will similarly come back to haunt him.
Soon after Bush spoke of the Iraqi election as "a landmark day in
the history of liberty," early returns representing 90 percent of
the ballots cast in the Iraq election established that the clear winners
were Shiite and Sunni religious parties not the least bit interested in
Western-style democracy or individual freedom -- including such extremists
as Muqtada al-Sadr, whose fanatical followers have fought pitched battles
with U.S. troops.The silver lining, of course, is that the election did see broad participation,
if not particularly clean execution. And because all of the leading parties
say they want the United States to leave on a clear and public time line,
this should provide adequate cover for a staged but complete withdrawal
from a sovereign country that we had no right to invade in the first place.
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