Posted on 06/30/2005 12:00:30 PM PDT by John Jorsett
But there appears to be a ray of hope , now that the instrument of regular political choice in a democracy ie elections next year , might begin to alleviate the malaise and slowly begin loosening the stranglehold of neo-cons and their pernicious ideology over USA’s body politic.
What the heck is he talking about? Next year is 2006, not 2008....
Al jiz... *snort*
Nice to see Democrats quoted in AL JIZ
Strange definition of "liberation": blowing innocent civilians to smithereens.
"Yes, but what about the 14 US military bases now under construction in Iraq."
Here's a good example. Good thing the author doesn't claim to be a journalist....but when has truth been relevant to anything or anyone associated with Al-Jaz anyway? Note, there is no evidence of signed contracts between the U.S. government and the Iraqi government to build 14 permanent installations. Why not? Because there is no such evidence.
The author also falls into the trap of invalidating the Iraqi free elections from January - claiming those elected are sham. What will he be left to say when the next elections are held? Something tells me Iraqis wouldn't take kindly to being told that NOTHING they do is legitimate and they are all just a bunch of puppets.
Iraqi election, scheduled for next year, after they have ratified their Constitution, which is scheduled for later this year.
Welcome to FR today.....now head on back to DU.
Welcome to FR.
"The Bush speech this week shows that the United States is in the same position. There was no vital interest at stake, because Bush could not state one in a sentence. The rationale was purely for political hegemony, and a view to the "justness" of the Bush executive's intentions."
I presume this is your position, and not something you plagarized from some talking points somewhere?
George $oreA$$ must be spending a lot of money to pay for all of the trolls visiting Free Republic to spew the same bs.
DUKE CALM
Since Jun 30, 2005
Hey, looks like you missed one...
bttt for later
Quagmire, doomed, insurgency, blah, blah, blah. They are all so unoriginal.
What's interesting in this is how al-jezeera heavily quotes the Dems and the liberal American media to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
I love this talk of the resistance being a liberation war.
Compare the Sunni rule in Iraq to the rule of white South Africans - similar minority rule situation, except Saddam's regime was far more vicious against the majority Shiites than apartheid ever was against blacks.
Now, imagine Nato had gone into South Africa and overthrown the apartheid regime - and a percentage of the Africaaners had started an "insurrection" to get their power and control back. Would we see the left praising their resistance as a war of liberation? Would they be called patriots?
No. They would be roundly condemned by the same folks who now support the Iraq former Baathist insurrectionists.
I don't think Shoeshine-Boy & Family are still filling mass graves, running REAL torture changes where inmates lost limbs, tongues or their life.
The Kurds haven't been gassed in a while!
Iraq hasn't invaded a neighbor in a while either
Iraq hasn't caused any global environmental disasters lately either.
Hummm.... I don't see anything that is the same!
They are parroting the words from recent emails from moveon.com and other Jihadist terrorists non profits in America.
They are so easy to spot in a thread with their brand new sign ups or after playing conservative for a few weeks.
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