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Friday, February 04, 2005

A view from Iraq

From the blog Raed in the Middle:
I remember the "elections" that used to happen in the time of the Iraqi national dictator government, people were going in millions at those times too. Pre-elections rumors used to terrify people as much as the pre-elections rumors are terrifying Iraqis now. They used to tell us that anyone who doesn't go to vote will be punished, and that the voting ballots have secret numbers that the governmnet can read and discover who said NO. People believed those things at that time, and those rumors were an important reason why Iraqis went in millions to say YES to their national dictator. I am sure that some people went to vote because they believe in voting, or for other reasons. Yet, I am sure that people were not "crying out of joy" after they voted.

This should be a new quote from the 21st century, a similar quote to that of Marie Antoinette.

allow(ie): SIR, tens of thousands of people are dying, the rest have no water or electricity, and there is a lack of oil products. Life is tragic, and millions are leaving the country...
little bush: let them eat elections.

If bush, allow(ie), and the other monkeys want to jump and party for their fake victories, let them think more about the next step where no one will be celebrating.

I really feel surprised about the way the elections are being romanticized, as if Iraqis are another kind of creatures who don't give a damn for all the tragedies in their lives, and just care about voting. As if Iraqis are one-track programmed machines that the bush administration created to vote, vote, vote, and cry out of joy.

If anyone thinks that the current elections are fundamentally different from the ones that used to happen before the war, you are wrong. Maybe at that time Iraqis had one fake option, and now they have 100 fake options.

The current elections will open the doors of hell. They'll open the doors for internal conflicts, and they'll increase the attacks on the occupation forces, when everyone sees how the bush administration has no intention of pulling out from Iraq and paying compensation for the illegal war they started.
I'm guessing Raed didn't get invited to the State of the Union address. Might have raised the wrong finger.