Another Fixed Election? Probably In Iraq
By Sam Hamod
Al-Jazeerah, January 27, 2005
If Allawi “wins” in Iraq, you’ll know the election has been fixed. We got a whiff of that on Monday, Jan. 24th when NPR, on “All Things Considered,” talked to alleged “Iraqis” who said they were Shi’is and since Sistani did not tell them to vote for the Al Hakim slate, they would vote for Allawi. Then, this morning, in the LA Times, Edmund Sanders, who is always safely tucked away in the Green Zone and listens continually to the American propaganda machines, also pointed said there was a good chance Allawi would win the election in Iraq.
This is pure nonsense. Sistani told his group to vote for the Al Hakim slate; thus, the NPR story is nothing but another lie in the news from Iraq. It looks like another Bush set up. In a poll taken less than 2 weeks ago, Allawi was the most hated man in Iraq; Bush in the world. If that’s the case, then how can they suddenly be for Allawi? This shows you that once again that our major news channels, is not to be trusted. It appears as if the neo-cons and their media friends are setting up another fixed election. We’ve had 2 in America, so what is one more in Iraq. I think the difference is that the Iraqi people are not as much sheep as are the American people and if Allawi “wins”—all hell will continue breaking loose.
It is in America’s interest to keep Allawi in power because he’s the only leading politician in all of the parties, except for a minority Kurdish party, who would ask America to stay in Iraq. Everyone else, Sunni and Shi’i alike, want America out of Iraq and they’ve said so. Thus, Allawi is the American’s man.
How will this be done. First of all, the major “observers” of the Iraqi election are to be stationed in Jordan! Then, from what the American lords of Iraq have said so far, the votes will be counted in Jordan. Why Jordan? Why not by the UN in Iraq?
Does all this sound fishy? Of course it does. One must remember, though he means well, King Abdullah of Jordan is beholden to America and Egypt for protection, and has a guarantee from Israel of non-aggression. But, as for the validity of the Iraqi election, if the vote is to be observed from Jordan, then the vote to be counted in Jordan (by whom? that is yet to be told to the world)—it is very realistic to believe that Allawi will suddenly, though he is hated in Iraq, be declared the WINNER!
Notice that none of the real experts who do not hide in the Green Zone, Robert Fisk and Dahr Jamail have noticed that Allawi is suddenly popular. But you can be sure, our gun shy, bullet shy, correspondents who sit in the bars of the Green Zone or in their hotel rooms, they will keep spouting the lies the American leadership wants told to the gullible American public. Sadly, with all the major media in America owned by major corporations, even the once respected NPR and PBS, there is no way the American people will get the truth. Thus, they’ll believe this new lie that will be told to them, that Allawi, the man Bush put into power, actually is beloved by the Iraqi people and that they have chosen him as their leader.
So much for truth, so much for reality, so much for American honor.
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Sam Hamod is the founder and editor of 3rd World News in Wash, DC; former advisor to the State Department; an expert on the Arab and Muslim worlds; former Director of The Islamic Center in Wash, DC. He may be reached at shamod@cox.net |
