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Politics : Ask Michael Burke

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To: benwood who wrote (98880)5/14/2003 1:46:19 AM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
Kick Their Ass and Take Their Gas: Democracy Comes to Iraq

by Jacob Levich

One month after the fall of Baghdad, the US has successfully liberated the people of Iraq from meaningful involvement in decisions about their own future.

A designer regime, concocted behind closed doors by Pentagon and State Department planners, is now being imposed on Iraq with great speed and without any kind of popular consent. Iraq's nascent "democratic transition government" is window-dressing for a military dictatorship charged with insuring that US policy goals -- especially the disposition of Iraq's vast petroleum reserves -- are protected from any troublesome outbreaks of democracy.

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