Iraqis: One; Bushies: Zero.
Iraqi vote results appears to have been a loss for the Bushies. The result evidently shows that the Iraqis are rejecting out plans for their country and they have a vastly different view of their country's future.
Iraq Insurgents Step Up Attacks
Iraqi insurgents have stepped up their attacks in recent days and are hitting their targets with increasing precision. “As the euphoria over the election dies away, the Iraqi resistance is seeking to eliminate anyone working with the US or the interim government,” according to a report by Patrick Cockburn in the London Independent. “The American recipe for making the army and security forces more effective is to embed US training officers in Iraqi units … The presence of American soldiers makes the Iraqi soldiers feel that they will be viewed as traitors to their own country by other Iraqis.”
Arriving in Iraq today, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, “The task ahead for us is to continue to help the Iraqi security forces to get on the job. That will take some time. “It’s their country. It’s their responsibility. And they’re the ones who have that obligation.” But as Naomi Klein writes in The Nation, the recent election showed that most Iraqis want the occupation to end: “Iraqis voted overwhelmingly to throw out the US-installed government of Iyad Allawi, who refused to ask the United States to leave. A decisive majority voted for the United Iraqi Alliance; the second plank in the UIA platform calls for ‘a timetable for the withdrawal of the multinational forces from Iraq.’”
The winning party’s platform also included positions which received no coverage in our mainstream media. “Adopting a social security system under which the state guarantees a job for every fit Iraqi…and offers facilities to citizens to build homes,” Klein writes. The UIA also pledges “to write off Iraq’s debts, cancel reparations and use the oil wealth for economic development projects.” In short, Iraqis voted to repudiate the radical free-market policies imposed by former chief US envoy Paul Bremer and take control of their own country.
Iraq Insurgents Step Up Attacks--from Air America
Iraq Insurgents Step Up Attacks
Iraqi insurgents have stepped up their attacks in recent days and are hitting their targets with increasing precision. “As the euphoria over the election dies away, the Iraqi resistance is seeking to eliminate anyone working with the US or the interim government,” according to a report by Patrick Cockburn in the London Independent. “The American recipe for making the army and security forces more effective is to embed US training officers in Iraqi units … The presence of American soldiers makes the Iraqi soldiers feel that they will be viewed as traitors to their own country by other Iraqis.”
Arriving in Iraq today, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, “The task ahead for us is to continue to help the Iraqi security forces to get on the job. That will take some time. “It’s their country. It’s their responsibility. And they’re the ones who have that obligation.” But as Naomi Klein writes in The Nation, the recent election showed that most Iraqis want the occupation to end: “Iraqis voted overwhelmingly to throw out the US-installed government of Iyad Allawi, who refused to ask the United States to leave. A decisive majority voted for the United Iraqi Alliance; the second plank in the UIA platform calls for ‘a timetable for the withdrawal of the multinational forces from Iraq.’”
The winning party’s platform also included positions which received no coverage in our mainstream media. “Adopting a social security system under which the state guarantees a job for every fit Iraqi…and offers facilities to citizens to build homes,” Klein writes. The UIA also pledges “to write off Iraq’s debts, cancel reparations and use the oil wealth for economic development projects.” In short, Iraqis voted to repudiate the radical free-market policies imposed by former chief US envoy Paul Bremer and take control of their own country.
Iraq Insurgents Step Up Attacks--from Air America
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