Iraq's Predetermined Elections

Iraq's Predetermined Elections

Eric Margolis
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majoob.com

No One Believes the Insurgency Will End
Robert Fisk
"We only had military coups and revolutions before. We voted 'yes' or 'yes'. Now we vote for ourselves."
It was easy to be maudlin about such words, to imbibe the false optimism of the Western television networks and the nonsense about Iraq's "historic" day--for it will only have been historic if it changes this country, and many fear it will not.
No one I met yesterday believes the insurgency will end.
Many thought it would grow more ferocious and the Shias in the polling stations said with one voice that they were also voting to rid Iraq of the Americans, not to legitimise their presence.

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Some Just Voted for Food
Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service, 31 January 2005
"Voting in Baghdad was linked with receipt of food rations, several voters said after the Sunday poll.
Many Iraqis said Monday that their names were marked on a list provided by the government agency that provides monthly food rations before they were allowed to vote."
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Vote For Food

Raed in the Middle
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Shocking. Amazing. Read all about it. Arabs can actually insert a piece of paper in a box.

As'ad AbuKhalil

“my feeling transcends joy and sadness because I feel a great responsibility that will determine the destiny of Iraq and the region and after 35 years of displacement, exile, sadness, death, and mass graves…It is our duty to call for the withdrawal of foreign forces and in whatever means that are agreed upon by the people including armed struggle but not now and until the people are certain that Americans and foreign forces reject the request of the government for withdrawal…”
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Iraqi Elections: Media Disinformation on Voter Turnout?
Michel Chossudovsky
"Related Facts regarding Voter Turnout, which contradict the official figures and statements"
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Corporate Media in Spin Overdrive Mode over Iraqi “Elections”

Nimmo - Another Day in the Empire

“Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers Sunday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls,” writes the Boston Globe, oblivious to the fact there would be no mortar attacks and suicide bombers if the United States had not invaded and occupied the country, an invasion and occupation predicated on a passel of lies, not that the corporate media mentions this obvious fact often enough for Americans to get the message."
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Under Mars: Perfectly Normal for Yahoo Redneck God-Fearing Soldiers
Another Day in the Empire

"So it is not surprising there is a web gallery of digital images glorifying the grisly murder of Iraqis, complete with sarcastic commentary.

It is a natural extension of the Christian Recon-Strausscon-Likudite plan to

“wipe out from the earth”

all Arabs and Muslims who do not accept Greater Israel,

“from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.”

Remarkably, millions of Americans, who consider themselves evangelical Christians, not only buy into this homicidal madness, they believe genocide and mass murder is mandatory if the “King of Peace” is to return and they are to sit on the “right-hand side of God,” minus Arabs and Muslims, of course."

Breed, Consume, Obey

Anger over Iraqi war dead on Internet
Mark Dunn - uruknet
(extremely graphic)
"Dozens of pictures of decapitated and limbless bodies are featured on the site with tasteless captions, purportedly sent in by soldiers. Captions include "plastic surgery needed", "road kill" and "I said dead".

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Some See Hope, Others Civil War

"But these elections will cause a split because of the damned politicians and the influence of the Americans."

Unthink

Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
"Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal."

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We've Been Taken Over By a Cult
By SEYMOUR HERSH

fear is the key

Here comes "The Freedom"
"I'd been in Fallujah for a week and all I'd seen was tough military tactics," he tells me,

"They are arresting people and putting them in these trucks, blindfolded and tied up. Everywhere I looked all I saw was utter devastation.

"He spoke with many families who told him one horror story after another, death after death after death.

"Then today, the military brings in a dozen Humvees and ground troops to basically seal off a small area near a market," he continues,

"In the middle of them is a CNN camera crew filming troops throwing candy to kids and these guys in orange vests start cleaning the streets around them."

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Retaken Iraqi cities fearful as vote nears

"Even those in the region who hoped the arrival of U.S. troops would protect them

from insurgents say the troops' presence is slowly increasing resentment.
"The situation here got better, but it's not ideal," said Abdulrazak, who is a Sunni.

"The soldiers aren't treating us as well as when they first got here.

There is mutual fear between us."

???

USAF playing cat and mouse game over Iran
"The U.S. Air Force is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Iran's ayatollahs, flying American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars, thus allowing U.S. pilots to grid the system for use in future targeting data, administration officials said."

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Humping the American Taxpayers leg for yet another Big Money Holy Wargasm even before the freshly animated imperial zombie of "Iraqi Democracy" can start dancing an oily jig.

We all need more brutal death smeared across the eyes of our children.

Oh wait, that's just a video game.

Nevermind.

Big big Love from The Duddle

Peace,

Youngfox

Strangelove, Strange War: Military Industrial Torture

Strangelove, Strange War

MICROWAVING IRAQ
“ Pacifying” Rays Pose New Hazards To Iraqis

By William Thomas 01/24/05

"After powering up the unit, the grunts quickly exit the area. It is their commanders’ fervent hope that any male survivors enraged by brutal American bombardments that damaged virtually every building in this once thriving “City of Mosques”, displacing a quarter-million residents while murdering thousands of children, women and elders in their homes—will lose all incentive for further resistance and revenge.

A dedicated former soldier, whose experiences during and after Desert Storm are chronicled in my book, Bringing The War Home, Hank stays in close touch with his unit serving “in theater” in Iraq. When I asked how many “poppers” are being used to irradiate Iraqi neighborhoods, he checked and got back to me.

There are “at least 25 of these that have been deployed to theater, and used. Some have conked out and been removed, so I do not know how many are currently active and broadcasting.” Hank is still losing friends in Iraq, where front-line soldiers put their current casualty figures from all causes—combat, accidents, psychological crackups and suicides—at 5,000 dead and 22,000 to 30,000 injured.

Hank blames those at the top for hospital counts of upwards of 65,000 children killed since the 2003 invasion. He is concerned that innocent Iraqi families and unsuspecting GIs alike are being used as test subjects for a new generation of “psychotronic” weapons using invisible beams across the entire electromagnetic spectrum to selectively alter moods, behavior and bodily processes.

“The ‘poppers’ are capable of using a combo of ULF, VLF, UHF and EHF wavelengths in any combination at the same time, sometimes using one as a carrier wave for the others,” Hank explains, in a process called superheterodyning.

The silent frequencies daily sweeping Fallujah and other trouble spots are the same Navy “freqs that drove whales nuts and made them go astray onto beaches.”

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"...Zarqawi was Captured, Then Released..."

By Alisha Ryu Baghdad 24-January-2005

Voice of America

Establishing Brand recognition is very important when selling a product to the consumer public.

Reasons to stay in Iraq until all of the oil is pumped don't come cheap.

American Democracy is a Joke and Iraq and Afghanistan are the punch lines

The hell you say.

The Strange Death of
American Democracy:
Endgame in Ohio by Michael Keefer

DEMOCRACY
BETRAYED
"The horror of Depleted Uranium is not limited to Iraq – it may well be at our doorsteps. The information which some governments are concealing is presented here."
By James Denver

America, The Beautiful
You know it is
time to end
your occupation when...

"US soldiers sentenced for Iraqi's killing:

Only 3 years in jail for shooting an interpreter in the head as a joke"

Army faces new claims over Iraq brutality
Sunday January 23, 2005The Observer

Conduct of Occupation Forces

Occupation Watch

Forklifted for Freedom!

Soldier, blogger dies in Iraq

Mike Smith was 24 years old

Oil War over-extends American Forces
"At the current pace and size of American troop deployments to Iraq, the availability of suitable reserve combat troops could become a problem as early as next year."

Iraq imposes curfew and car ban for polling day !
democrazy!

Goldstein never sleeps...

Zarqawi's declaration of war fuels fear of violence in run-up to poll
"A week from the day when their country goes to the polls, Iraqis say they are frightened. One potential voter said fearfully: "Baghdad will surely burn during the election days. I think more about my own survival than I do about the election campaign."

Friday, January 21, 2005

Doctor at Yarmouk Hospital speaks to young girl burned in an attack near Baghdad mosque.

Once the media darling "Menace to Freedom" of American media coverage, Moqtada and his Army seem to have disappeared into the woodwork.
Al-Sadr and the Sunnis
"I personally will stay away [from the elections] until the occupiers stay away from them, and until our beloved Sunnis participate in them," the statement read. "Otherwise they will lack legitimacy and democracy."

Low Fuel, High Violence
Dahr Jamail
"Last night I peered out my hotel room window into the vast darkness of Baghdad. Aside from random lights powered by generators, the blackened capital city seemed to lay dormant under high winds and a cold, driving rain.

This morning as we’re driving under clear, crisp skies on the harrowing streets Abu Talat tells me, “We have had neither water nor electricity at our house since 9am yesterday morning. It is as if we are camping in our house!”

End of Iraq's nightmare ... or the start
"Violence threatens to plunge the country into civil war as the beleaguered Sunni minority prepares to boycott this month's polls"

Lockdown the Vote
"Sometimes I feel that I'm in a war, it doesn't look like an election, more like the Third World War. In all countries it's a day of rest but here you only feel fear because you can die at any time," Maruan Muhammad, 45, a shopkeeper from Mansour district of Baghdad, told IRIN."

"All private vehicles will be banned from the roads between 29 -31 January, while curfew restrictions will be extended. At the same time, travel between cities will be prohibited and Iraq's land borders will be sealed in an effort to keep fresh foreign insurgents from entering the country. Airports will also close for a few days before the elections. On election day itself, people will be free to move only during the hours when the polls are open, Wael Abdul-Latif, Minister of Provincial Affairs, told IRIN in the capital, Baghdad. Polling stations will open from 0700 until 1700. He added that the telephones network would be shut down to prevent communication between insurgents."

Bleak Eid...Riverbend
"It's the third day of Eid. Eid is the Islamic holiday and usually it’s a time for families to get together, eat, drink and celebrate. Not this Eid. This Eid is unbearable. We managed a feeble gathering on the first day and no one was in a celebratory mood. There have been several explosions- some far and some near but even those aren't as worrisome as the tension that seems to be growing on a daily basis."
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Water is like peace- you never really know just how valuable it is until someone takes it away. It’s maddening to walk up to the sink, turn one of the faucets and hear the pipes groan with nothing. The toilets don’t function… the dishes sit piled up until two of us can manage to do them- one scrubbing and rinsing and the other pouring the water. Why is this happening? Is it because of the electricity? If it is, we should at least be getting water a couple of hours a day- like before. Is it some sort of collective punishment leading up to the elections? It’s unbelievable. At first, I thought it was just our area but I’ve been asking around and apparently, almost all of the areas (if not all) are suffering this drought."

Baghdad residents face water crisis
"Nothing works - there's no power, no water, no fuel, no phone service. It's a disaster," according to Namidh, a security guard who said his family had been without water for a week."

Sounds election ready!

Whitehouse

Bush Inauguration Speech: A "Vacuous Sermon," A "Global Crusade" Against "Defenseless States"
"It just makes me feel that the administration at this stage is really very unclear regarding its genuine strategic doctrine. It has high-sounding rhetoric, but it doesn't have a real sense of priorities or directions. If the rhetoric was to be taken seriously, we would be overstretched globally to a devastating degree....You know deep-seated beliefs are one thing; capabilities is the other. And what capabilities do we have actually at hand to pursue this global crusade?..."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, (FELLOW WAR CRIMINAL)

Another long four years
"As for his noble words that "life is fragile, and evil is real, and courage triumphs," we know that our nation has been fed a steady diet of fear and paranoia.
If courage really triumphs, the president wouldn't have to hide behind phalanxes of soldiers, cops and Secret Service agents and our capitol would not have to be transformed into an armed camp.
No, Thursday's inaugural address was just the latest in a long line of empty words coming from the lips of an empty man.
It's going to be a long four years for America and the rest of the world."

Because Aids is doing the lords work,

"LET'S TALK" ABSTINENCE for $281,149

Fascist America

"Kennedy implies that we live in a fascist country and that the Bush White House has learned key lessons from the Nazis.

"While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business," he writes.
"My American Heritage Dictionary defines fascism as 'a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership together with belligerent nationalism.'

Sound familiar?"

Fraudulent elections, All hell breaks Loose, and the Banality of holocaust

Get ready for the Super Legitimate, Non- Oil Puppet Elevating, Iraq Occupation Election Show!

It is going to be the queerest oddball fraud job to be perpetuated in the name of democracy.

In lieu of preloaded election-decided electronics this election show will feature votes from Iraqis long removed from the country and their children born abroad. Thousands will be handled and shipped from within the U.S.A. by an administration that has constructed this entire contrived exercise to secure the remaining world oil supply and will see it through in the midst of a guerrilla war with the people they claimed to have liberated

Y'all gotta know, I'm the Emperor of I-raq too.

Caligula Zero poses in his new imperial gear with some of his favourite expendible props.

Photo - C.Hondros
How many innocent people have died at American checkpoints in Iraq?

There are a whole lot of checkpoints for a "liberated" land.
"A blood-covered girl screams after her parents were fatally shot by soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division after the family failed to stop driving their car. The girl was uninjured."

Soften’ Em Up for Democracy!

More photos of prisoner abuse and torture posted online by some pie-wagon stateside like some sort of proud trophy.

The Homeland yawned and changed the channel.

Najaf -T.Anderson
We'll put the voting machines right here!
US keeps locations of Iraqi voting booths secret

"The citizens of both Fallujah and Ramadi will be afforded the opportunity to vote within their town," he said.
But he says Iraqi election authorities are considering allowing residents of Fallujah who have been left homeless by fighting to vote elsewhere."

This sham is very important to the new Empire.
Bush, Cheney and all of the other war criminals want to be able to puff out their rotten, heartless chests and claim that they brought “democracy” to Iraq.
The American people, many of whom are still mistaking their ignorance for innocence, will be able to pat themselves on the back, perpetuate the pathetic myth that Amerika is “the most generous country on the Earth”, and move on to more important things like the love lives of Hollywood celebrities and myopic immersion in the overflowing troughs of witless fear, repulsive self-pity and mindless gluttony.

freedom, torture, liberty


"Core Values"

Rule Britannia! British Occupiers show their team spirit. - Thanks Tony!

Canada's Shame

Apparently my fellow Canadians have developed their "Remote Viewing" skills for this bit of psuedo-democracy puppet theatre as the sham is "monitored" from Hell on Earth free Jordan.
Canada to lead chorus of support for sham election in Iraq

The Paul Martin government lends our precious credibility to this fiasco. Shame!

E. Johns

Billmon via. The L.E.O.T.D

For Iraq, "The Salvador Option" Becomes Reality

Lavish, tacky balls in the face of societal meltdown - millions

cowboy boots and tux - who fucking cares

Global credibility - priceless.

Rendering the words "Freedom" and "Liberty" utterly meaningless in the age of holy terror crusade.

via P.P?

American Democracy melts under corporate influence.

Lobbyists Join Corporate America in “Soft Money” Funding of the Bush Inauguration.

“It’s not a real shocker that the financial industry is the leader in inaugural contributions when one considers how much it has to gain from the administration’s proposal to privatize Social Security,” said Frank Clemente, director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division. “The money it spends on the inauguration is a small price to pay for access and influence with the Bush administration.”

Bush's 2005 Inauguration Celebration: Brought to You by Corporate America

PDF
"Corporations by law are barred from direct contributions to presidential candidates and campaigns. However, they are under no similar restrictions in attempting to curry favor from the administration by financing the president’s inaugural events. Inaugural fundraising remains one of the least regulated areas of political giving."

Boxing Day 2004
Many say it is the worst natural disaster of our lifetimes. I hope I do not live long enough to see it fall to number 2 on the list.

THE END IS NIGH - LETS GET HIGH!


Because you know a couch surfing hippie like J the C will hit your stash - hard.

Bad weather and evil people killing each other is of course the End of the World.
If enough people get together and through their actions and thoughts will it to happen – it just might.
People power!
If you hear the booming voice of some zoo-keeping intelligent designer don’t consider the technology capable of the transmission.
If you see giant, blue eyed War-Jesus hovering in the clouds check your periphery and see if you can catch a glimpse of the projecting mechanism.
And if you are raptured, can I have all your stuff?

“The word "tribulation," used as a prophetic term, comes from Jesus' Olivet discourse, during which He laid out the future course of human history all the way to its climax at His Second Coming. The Lord said, in response to His disciples’ question, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"

From the “RAPTURE READY” Website.

Stick around,

Peace,

Youngfox