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In Search of True Thinkers
2nd February 2005, 01:32
I wrote this for the school newspaper and turned it in today. Probably won't be printed however, but tell me what you think anyway.

False Democracy

The recent elections in Iraq, unfortunately, mark a new low in the deceptive means used by America in the harmful and debauched pursuit of the neo-colonial hijacking of the third-worlds economic means. These elections, contrary to what the overwhelming majority of the grotesque nationalistic and politically altered news reports speak of, will neither resolve the crisis of the American stooge regime in Baghdad nor legitimize the US occupation in the eyes of the world and among large sections of the American public. The reason being, truth be told, is that as much as President Bush and his associates hail this election as hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the middle east this is one of the most staged democratic processes since the last time Iraq elected Saddam Hussein, and the evidence to prove this is shameful once brought to light.

To begin with one cannot even begin to imagine the possibility of fair elections in a nation that has been engulfed in a brutal war for nearly two years without first acknowledging the need for international election observers at every polling station across Iraq. Only an action such as this could fully ensure an at least somewhat fair election. This was not the case, however, as international election observers stood watch only in the neighboring nation of Jordan and in the highly fortified green zone of Baghdad which is essentially just as useless as being a whole nation away. To be completely fair, however, I must say that perhaps with a pair of very powerful binoculars the election observers in Jordan could make out the shapes in the sky that were the American warplanes and helicopters passing over the heads of Iraqi voters.

Of course the lack of independent election observers at the polls in Iraq, although a tremendous blow to the credibility of this election claimed by Mr. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is quite understandable considering all the violence that was anticipated on the day of the elections. What is completely unforgivable and another testament as to just how fair this election is is the fact that once the voting had concluded the ballots were not brought to a location, such as Jordan or the green zone, where election observers could at least witness the tallying of the ballots to ensure an authentic voting process. This course of action, however, would be something highly undesired by Bush and his cronies and one has to wonder why independent election observers were left completely out of the voting process. Lets not forget that the primary reason for engaging thousands of American lives in a war with Iraq, despite Bushs false claim of weapons of mass destruction and the now widely discredited links of Saddam and Al-Qaeda, is to ensure the American dominance over the fifteen percent of the worlds oil supply that lies in Iraq. This dominance could be greatly aided if American lackeys, most preferably the current puppet regime holding power currently, were prominent in Iraqs new government.

So how is it that the illegitimacy of the Iraqi elections can be true if all of the major news networks were broadcasting nothing but the reports of uncontested success and the images of parading Iraqi citizens? Well, like the elections themselves, the images that Americans are viewing on their TVs is most likely a staged effort as well. As Robert Fisk, a highly acclaimed journalist for the UKs Independent newspaper, reports: The big television networks have been given a list of five polling stations where they will be "allowed" to film. Close inspection of the list shows that four of the five are in Shia Muslim areas - where the polling will probably be high - and one in an upmarket Sunni area where it will be moderate. Every working-class Sunni polling station will be out of bounds to the press. I wonder if the television lads will tell us that today when they show voters "flocking" to the polls. It is truly shameful that we have media conglomerates across the country so loyal to their corporate masters that they would not even hint at the mass show of puppetry that is being carried out by the authoritative powers in the American government. Fortunately, however, not even the American media could disguise the spectacle of Iraqis filing in to the polls through rolls of barbed wire, being frisked three separate times under the eyes of US snipers, while US warplanes and helicopters roared overhead.


In any event it is necessary to call this embarrassingly false showing of a democratic process what it truly is, a major triumph in the American imperialism that is sweeping the globe at an alarmingly disturbing rate. I fear that unless the world and those in America that have not been indoctrinated into Bushs destructive wartime policies take a definitive stance to prohibit our current administrations imperialist tendencies we will find ourselves falling deeper into a hole of having illusionary democracies placed upon the nations of the world. It also must be noted that a struggle against imperialism is not one that will end with removal of leaders advocating such tendencies like Bush, Blair, and the puppet figure that is the Prime Minister of Iraq, former supporter of Saddams brutal Baath party and CIA payee, Iyad Allawi. Rather it is a cause that will show its beginnings of triumph once we realize how destructive all imperialist advocates are to the citizens of the world.

bolshevik butcher
2nd February 2005, 18:32
Nice report, will it actually get read?

I've Defected
2nd February 2005, 18:40
post it in a blog, send it to all your friends....


People need to understand whats going on in the world.



great article

JazzRemington
2nd February 2005, 21:14
Or you could print up your own newspaper. It's not terribly hard to do with Word, or something similar like OpenOffice. I had one going a loooooong time ago when I was in middle school. I've been meaning to get another going, though.

Cal
3rd February 2005, 01:27
Very well written, I commend you,

However where it falls down is the research, a lot of what you have said is false or 'flimsy' to say the least.


As Robert Fisk, a highly acclaimed journalist for the UKs Independent newspaper,

Not a problem with this line but there are scores of other respected journalists who have written in very complimentary terms about the election.


this is one of the most staged democratic processes since the last time Iraq elected Saddam Hussein

by staged what do you mean, it was planned? of course it was planned. and to be fair the last time saddam was elected there was only one name on the ballot paper to vote for, sorry my mistake there were two each Iraqi had their name printed so that the authorities knew you had voted for SH.

I know you have your agenda and stand point but a bit of objectivity could be the way forward.

RedStarOverChina
3rd February 2005, 01:43
Commendable! Just dont stop learning. There's lots and lots for us to learn.

In Search of True Thinkers
3rd February 2005, 22:29
Yeah I have shown it to my friends and will post it in a blog. I will also take Cal's critiqueing into account in my next work. To be honest I had a previous version that had even stronger overtones than the one posted so I will be careful to balance my writing from now on, however not without sacrificing my view.

Iluvmuslims
3rd February 2005, 22:36
Glorious, comrade. Glorious.

The media expects us to believe that the Iraqi proletariat wishes to choose their own leaders?

Nonsense!

They wish to have their lives dictated to them by an immensely powerful centrally controlled government, just like any other oppressed person would!

Jonathan Edwards
4th February 2005, 01:24
The big television networks have been given a list of five polling stations where they will be "allowed" to film. Close inspection of the list shows that four of the five are in Shia Muslim areas - where the polling will probably be high - and one in an upmarket Sunni area where it will be moderate. Every working-class Sunni polling station will be out of bounds to the press. I wonder if the television lads will tell us that today when they show voters "flocking" to the polls.

If I were your teacher (or professor) I would take off for improper use of quotation marks (supposed to use 'allowed' and 'flocking' when quoting within a quote).

Anyway, prove it. Most of what is in there is undocumented. If you really want someone (especially me) to believe that, it needs to be documented. I can document arguments for the use of DDT off the top of my head now (Sweeney Committee Report, April 25, 1972, as an example) and if you want to have any credibility, don't write opinion as fact.

Please give me documentation. All that matters to reports is documentation. I could right a report about why Ashton Kutcher and Hillary Clinton are having an affair, but without documentation, people will call me a fool.

In Search of True Thinkers
5th February 2005, 01:03
[QUOTE]Anyway, prove it. Most of what is in there is undocumented. If you really want someone (especially me) to believe that, it needs to be documented. I can document arguments for the use of DDT off the top of my head now (Sweeney Committee Report, April 25, 1972, as an example) and if you want to have any credibility, don't write opinion as fact

For documentation of the lack of international observers see: http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012305C.shtml

As for the report of only5 polling stations being available to the press I took documentation from the most credible source I could find which is the press itself as exemplified in the quote. For the full article see: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7910.htm

Finnaly as for writting opinion as fact there is no doubt that my opinion is heavily reflected in this essay, and in the furure I will do better to distinguish between the two, but I only see one instance where this is the case: "this is one of the most staged democratic processes since the last time Iraq elected Saddam Hussein"