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So This Is What They Call The New "Free" Iraq

Posted on Sunday, July 04 at 19:10 by 4Canada
It would be difficult to find a more preposterous - and chilling - symbol of Mr Bremer's failures, his hopeless inability to understand the nature of the débâcle that he and his hopeless occupation authority have brought about. It's not that the old "Coalition Provisional Authority" - now transmogrified into the 3,000-strong US embassy - was out of touch. It didn't even live on Planet Earth. Mr Bremer's last starring moment came when he departed Baghdad on a US military aircraft, with two US-paid mercenaries - rifles pointed menacingly at camera crews and walking backwards - protecting him until the cabin door closed. And Mr Bremer, remember, was appointed to his job because he was an "anti-terrorist" expert. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6429.htm

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  1. by Anonymous
    Mon Jul 05, 2004 2:50 pm
    Saddam's standards of good governance are hard to meet. Where were all these writers when Saddam was filling graveyards and torturing people to death? The fact is that this movement against George Bush and Tony Blair only exists because a lot of people, in the media especially, hate the fact that there are people with courage and power who can affect positive change, whereas they themselves are quite impotent harpies who can only chortle and whine to their ignorant followers.

  2. by avatar Jesse
    Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:15 pm
    Once again, the problem is that the US is doing these things while claiming to be 'saving' iraq. How does honking your horn make you a terrorist or a threat? Why should the iraqi people be humiliated in the name of freedom, when such laws would be laughed out of court in an actual free nation?

    If the US wants people, reporters especially, to believe that they are the bringers of freedom and justice, they cannot go around acting so horribly. It's possible that Saddam was worse, but then he wasn't proclaiming loudly to be the saviour of western civilisation. The rest of the western world is disgusted by the abuses being carried out by the US, and the press is merely reflecting that.


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    Jesse

  3. by avatar Milton
    Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:52 pm
    Considering that the US put Saddam in power and then advised him who to kill to stay in power and armed him, they even gave him WMDs, so that he could carry out his murderous activities, means what? <p>If Bush and Blair are such great men, why has Bush been convicted of war crimes, and why is Blair held in such ill repute by his own party? There are very few media organizations, ( and most of them are internet organizations ), with enough guts to question anything Bush says. But then you already know that, don,t you Anonymous.

  4. by 4Canada
    Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:12 am
    Actually Anon,

    Robert Fisk has been a Middle East correspondant for likely longer than you've lived.

  5. by Anonymous
    Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:12 pm
    Why do you harp on people who come here on occasion and dispute your rhetoric and leave as anonymous, you find that distasteful? yet when a liberal leaves a message here under the same circumstances you seem to have no problem-- why?


    Mike

    Did I misspell anything?



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