McClellan: Bush Nixed Iraq Election Funds

[deminks]

WASHINGTON - The White House considered funding candidates in
Iraq's January election, but President Bush decided against it, his press secretary said Monday.

While publicly the Bush administration was saying the United States would live with whatever government was elected in free and fair elections, U.S. officials were concerned about Iranian support for pro-Iranian Shiite parties.

"We did have concerns that outsiders might try to influence the election, including Iran," press secretary Scott McClellan said. "That raised concerns about whether there might be a need to level the playing field for the elections, and it presented us with some difficult issues about what action to take, if any, in response to those concerns.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050718/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

Gee, Simple Scotty, some outsider was trying to influence the elections. Have you called your boss and asked him what the hell is going on? Do you think he would tell you if he did this or not?

Gee, Simple Scotty, even if you boss just considered interfering in the election to , as you say, level the playing field, isn't that in itself pretty despicable?

Just asking. :banghead:

[rzemanfl]

1. With nine billion bucks missing in Iraq we are supposed to

believe this shit????

[enough]

2. Read the Sy Hersh New Yorker article that's on the Greatest page now,

and you will see that he "nixed" one such project only to go ahead with another, more covert one to do the same thing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4128099

[Spazito]

3. We know when Scotty says it didn't happen, it is a given the opposite

is true. There is NO doubt in my mind and millions of others that the bush cabal interfered with this election as they have with others in the US and outside of it.

[Peace Patriot]

4. You've got the right idea, Spazito! Whatever they say, you can pretty

much figure out the truth by assuming the opposite. This is because they are soulless, loveless, passionless, rudderless, selfish and extremely unethical people with nothing to say--windbags covering for massive theft, mass murder and other crimes. That's all Bush spokespeople and spinmeisters, and their lapdogs in the media, are. There is no there there. So the truth is just putty to them--meaningless words to be shaped and twirled into "messages" that cover their masters' crimes.

They are much like TV advertisers. They will use and abuse anything, to sell a product. And they use similar techniques. If it's a harmful product, they will sell it as especially healthy. If it's a product that entraps you--like a car, which physically entraps you and entraps you with higher and higher gas prices, and pollution--they will sell it as freedom, and as "the great outdoors" (vehicle tearing up a forest floor, or a beach, or zipping along an empty highway in Big Sur).

And it's pretty awful to think that all war means to them, or treason, or massive theft, or lying, is how it can be sold or spun. It's that empty. And that is a terrible thing.

But anyway, this is one way for we victims to figure out what's really going on: just think of the opposite of whatever they are asserting. It's a pretty reliable rule.

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The answer to the stink in Washington DC is restoring our right to vote, by throwing Bushite electronic voting machine companies--Diebold, ES&S and brethren--out of the election business NOW--or, at the least, achieving some measure of election transparency with paper ballot backups, strict auditing, and no secret, proprietary programming code owned and controlled by major Bush donors and campaign chairs! The only place where we can get this done is in state/local jurisdictions, where the authority over election systems still resides, and where ordinary people still have some say. The bipartisan corruption in the electronic voting business at the state/local level is daunting, but it is nothing compared to the bipartisan corruption in Washington DC, and it is local and therefore much more fixable. See the DU Forum "2004 Election Results and Discussion" for information and action ideas:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203