So Iraq is in the midst of their 1st parlimentry elections??
I didn't think a country needed elections when they already had a government...(The U.S.A.).
So a little "food for thought" taken from a few areas on the web. These people also question the elections as I am questioning them.....read on......
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The historic day taking place now in Iraq is a curious outcome of the events of September 11, 2001. With that in mind, the question of who benefited from the events of 9/11/01 is becoming ever more clear.
It can be argued that those who wished to force Iraq into a regime change for the purpose of establishing a democracy were not terrorists who hated Americans freedoms, or people who collected and strored weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but were working with another group of people who needed the catalyst to move the US Armed Forces into the region for a longer term commitment.
Therein lay the treason of George W. Bush and his Presidential Cabinet of Advisors. Unless someone wishes to capture Osama bin Laden, the likely culprits are walking around in Washington D.C. with GOP lapel pins disguised as an American flag.
And if anyone really believes 19 box-cutters circumvented the civil air defense mechanisms from NORAD to the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 without help from inside the beltway, then you watch too much television.
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And another view with a web link below the excerpt....
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Excerpt:
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Imagine, for a moment, that the Iraqi elections on Friday come off without a hitch. No one is killed, maimed or intimidated into voting for a particular candidate by having a gun barrel put to his head. There are no hanging chads, no mayhem or madness. What will the Iraqi and American people get out of the incredible blood and treasure we have poured into this conflict?
We will get an Iraqi government dominated by known and notorious terrorists. We will get an Iraqi government dominated by Iran. The Shia will walk away from Friday with the lion's share of control over the Iraqi government.
The two most powerful Shia political parties, the ones that will come out of this with the big wins, are the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is known by the initials SCIRI. Both were founded and funded by Iran in the 1980s. Both have a history of spectacular violence against the United States and other nations. "These guys are murderers," says former CIA agent Bob Baer, who dealt with Dawa during the 1980s. "They were the core element that blew up our embassy in Beirut in 1983."
Paul Mulshine, writing last week for the New Jersey Star-Ledger, encapsulates this amazing turn of events. "What would you call someone who wants to hand over control of Iraq to a group of terrorists that first made its reputation by blowing up a couple of American embassies?" wrote Mulshine. "I'd call him President Bush.
The group is called the Dawa party. In the early 1980s, Dawa terrorists bombed our embassies in Kuwait and in Lebanon. They were universally recognized as vicious America-hating, Iranian-supported terrorists.
Now they're part of the coalition that is expected to win control of the new Iraqi parliament in Thursday's elections." "The other coalition partners aren't much better," continued Mulshine. "The sanest group on the Shi'a side is the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
A 1984 Washington Post story portrayed the group, known by its initials SCIRI, as 'a kind of parent organization for four operational terrorist groups.' SCIRI was founded in Iran a couple of years earlier by the Ayatollah Khomeini with the goal of taking control of Iraq.
Now, they're about to do so, courtesy of George W. Bush."
....Link:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121405A.shtml
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And then there is the stuff that old "Georgie Porgie" is screwing with back at home. He just can't seem to keep his hand out of the good old cookie jar.......
First this........
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Bush Spied on Thousands of Americans!
Secretly LIFTED Ban on Spying!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -
Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.
Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible "dirty numbers" linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said. The agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications.
The previously undisclosed decision to permit some eavesdropping inside the country without court approval represents a major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices, particularly for the National Security Agency, whose mission is to spy on communications abroad. As a result, some officials familiar with the continuing operation have questioned whether the surveillance has stretched, if not crossed, constitutional limits on legal searches. "This is really a sea change," said a former senior official who specializes in national security law. "It's almost a mainstay of this country that the N.S.A. only does foreign searches."
Click link below for more from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/15/politics/15cnd-program.html?ei=5094&en=0a4739ca3ab6d63b&hp=&ex=1134709200&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1134720853-wPdninxEljZxyAY0uvAxoQ&pagewanted=print
And then this......
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Pentagon May Be Tracking Activists
From Reuters
December 14, 2005WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has a secret database that indicates the U.S. military may be collecting information on Americans who oppose the Iraq war and may be monitoring peace demonstrations, NBC reported Tuesday.
The database, obtained by the network, lists 1,500 "suspicious incidents" across the United States over a 10-month period and includes four dozen antiwar meetings or protests, some aimed at military recruiting, "NBC's Nightly News" said.
The network said the document was the first look at how the Pentagon had stepped up intelligence collection in the U.S. since the Sept. 11 attacks. The report quoted what it said was a secret d! ocument as concluding: "We have noted increased communication between protest groups using the Internet" but not a "significant connection" between incidents.
Americans have been wary of any monitoring of antiwar activities since the Vietnam era, when it was learned that the Pentagon spied on antiwar and civil rights groups and individuals.
Congress held hearings in the 1970s and recommended strict limits on military spying inside the U.S. A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on the report. However, he said: "The Department of Defense uses counterintelligence and law enforcement information properly collected by law enforcement agencies.
The use of this information is subject to strict limitations, particularly the information must be related to missions relating to protection of [Pentagon] installations, interests and personnel." The Pentagon has acknowledged existence of a counterintelligence program known as "Threat and Local Observation Notice," or TALON. The system is designed to gather "non-validated threat information and security anomalies indicative of possible terrorist pre-attack activity," the Pentagon said
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