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Originally Posted by roachboy
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...395462,00.html
secret candidates. secret polling places, whole regions of the country not able to vote, an entire segment of the iraqi population not represented (the sunni)...this will be a fine election, no doubt about it.
what this looks like, more than anything else, is a huge ritualized repetition of the "mission accomplished" photo op--something meaningles in fact but which makes the right feel like it has done something....
it is not about iraq, not about the iraqi people: it is about giving the bush administration material with which to "prove" that something is happening that is not fiasco.
that it will function to make the discourse of democracy american-style even more a joke than it already is is obviously secondary to these folks.
it really does appear that "liberty" as bush defines it means in fact little more than formality. that "the people" means only those people who are lackies of american policy objectives. so the "historic mission" of the states is then the propagation of a new kind of colonialism, one in which the principle langauge of domination is that of democracy bush-style.
way to go.
hearts and minds.
o yes.
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You're blaming Bush for all this??
Seems to me you should be blaming the people who are sniping at voters, blowing up polling places and threatening the candidates.