[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: USGP-INT Iraq's election fraud (Sam Smith, Progressive Review)

[Paul Etxeberri]

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>UNDERNEWS
>February 1, 2005
>FROM THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW
>EDITED BY SAM SMITH
>http://prorev.com
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>IRAQ'S ELECTION FRAUD
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>AS RESIDENTS of America's oldest colony,
>Washington DC, can attest, elections are a
>manifestation of democracy but far from a
>guarantee of it. Elections accompanied by
>continued colonial rule are part fraud and part
>frustration. Elections that change names but keep
>the power elsehwere are not democracy. Elections
>that give you a prime minister but take your oil
>are not democracy. Elections that give you a
>constitution but Monsanto much of your food
>supply are not democracy. Iraq remains a colony
>of the United States.
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>One also does not generally associate democracy
>with a country run by a puppet of a imperial
>power formerly in the employ of the CIA such as
>Iyad Allawi.
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>Before that Allawi was by some reports, including
>Sermour Hersh, up to even dirtier business as an
>allegedly murderous agent of the Baath Party in
>Europe.
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>Hersh wrote in the New Yorker: "'Allawi helped
>Saddam get to power,' an American intelligence
>officer told me. 'He was a very effective
>operator and a true believer.' Reuel Marc
>Gerecht, a former C.I.A. case officer who served
>in the Middle East, added, 'Two facts stand out
>about Allawi. One, he likes to think of himself
>as a man of ideas; and, two, his strongest virtue
>is that he's a thug.'
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>Hersh went on, "A cabinet-level Middle East
>diplomat, who was rankled by the U.S.
>indifference to Allawi's personal history, told
>me early this month that Allawi was involved with
>a Mukhabarat 'hit team' that sought out and
>killed Baath Party dissenters throughout Europe.
>(Allawi's office did not respond to a request for
>comment.) At some point, for reasons that are not
>clear, Allawi fell from favor, and the Baathists
>organized a series of attempts on his life."
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>Allawi then became an opponent of Saddam working
>for British intleligence and later the head of
>the Iraqi Natioal Accord where he joined Ahmed
>Chalabi as a CIA asset. Wrote the British
>Spectator last fall: "In 1996, with massive CIA
>backing, Mr Allawi finally got to mount his coup.
>It was a complete fiasco, not entirely helped by
>his decision to announce the supposedly
>top-secret operation to the Washington Post. Even
>before this, Saddam's secret police had secretly
>seized the sophisticated encrypted satphone sent
>in to Iraq to communicate with the coup plotters
>and were using it to feed disinformation to the
>CIA. Once the coup had been crushed and all the
>plotters arrested, the special line came to life
>one last time. It was the Iraqis, kindly ringing
>up the CIA to let them know it was all over."
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>Following the Iraq war, "Filings to the US
>justice department show that Mr Allawi has, since
>summer 2003, paid between $50,000 and $100,000 a
>month to a constellation of Washington political
>consultants - sums far greater than those spent
>by any of his rivals. When the time came to
>choose an interim prime minister, it was Mr
>Allawi, somewhat to everyone's surprise, who was
>picked by the Governing Council - which was made
>up of Iraqis, but US-appointed ones."
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>Dahr Jamail wrote in his election coverage, "As
>one man in Falluja told Robert Fisk: 'We are not
>rejecting this election for the sake of it. We
>are rejecting it because it is the 'tent' of the
>occupation. It is the vehicle for the Americans
>to ensure that [the regime of interim Prime
>Minister Iyad] Allawi gets back in. And we are
>still under occupation.'"
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>In short, what has happened was only an election
>and one that, even by the dismally reduced
>standards of post-constitutional America, does
>not qualify as an symbol of democracy. The
>American media should be ashamed of having joined
>in the fraud.
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>HERSH ARTICLE
>http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040628fa_fact
>SPECTATOR ARTICLE
>http://www.antiwar.com/spectator2/spec509b.html
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Paul Etxeberri

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