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To: quehubo who wrote (126770)	3/21/2004 11:33:09 AM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I am not aware of any Iraqi national assets being sold to anyone. guardian.co.uk "Jay Garner, the US general abruptly dismissed as Iraq's first occupation administrator after a month in the job, says he fell out with the Bush circle because he wanted free elections and rejected an imposed programme of privatisation. In an interview to be broadcast on BBC Newsnight tonight, he says: "My preference was to put the Iraqis in charge as soon as we can, and do it with some form of elections ... I just thought it was necessary to rapidly get the Iraqis in charge of their destiny." So Garner wanted the only correct way: let the Iraqi people decide about their assets. Currently, you can't even get information about fatal crime rate in Iraq. So I don't expect a lot of information about the privatisation ongoing. But there's absolutely no democratic legitimation for it. My native language is German. What I translated back then was more or less a comment by a conservative newspaper. Don't forget: when they requested the condemnation of the ETA ("ETA without any doubt") there already existed quitwe a few hints that it was the work of some islamic terrorists. It was a manipulation without precedence in the UNSC.