Iraq's Pachachi : "It is a lie... I am not a stooge. Honest (Yea. OK. Sure)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040601/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_worldwrap&cid=1514&ncid=1473

<snip>After refusing the presidency, Pachachi told a news conference that he was not a stooge of the US-led forces, formally known as the Coalition Provisional Authority, but he had been opposed by "certain parties" because of his "democratic and liberal" views.

"It is a lie ... that the Coalition Provisional Authority wanted to impose me as president," he said. "It's wrong, I was never the CPA candidate, they had another candidate."

Outside the heavily fortified compound where the CPA and the governing council had their headquarters, at least three security guards were killed and 20 people were wounded in a car bomb attack on the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

The governor of Najaf meanwhile said that US troops would halt patrols in the city and withdraw to five bases in the city under a new truce with Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army.

more...Gullible Americans will fall for this crap. But I doubt the Iraqis will.

[BabsSong]

1. This whole thing is becoming something akin to Musical Chairs only

in this game it's the guy at the end WITHOUT the goddamn chair who is going to be given the "keys to the kingdom". Of course, these handpicked goons of the Bush regime are going to be hated by the Iraqi people but we don't care. The whole scam is being pulled so that on June 30th all news from Iraq will no longer have the words "Bush" or "Bush administration" or "Pentagon", etc. in their copy. Everything from that point on will simply refer to an inept Iraqi government who has let things get out of control (you know--we gave them the gift and freedom and those stupid camel jockeys are so corrupt and violent that they couldn't handle it; thus, one cannot blame our beloved leader who tried so hard to bring them this beautiful gift). In a word, put on your propaganda deflecting helment 'cause the shit is going to becoming at you faster than you can duck out of the way!!! Hey George, when are ya gonna bring democracy to this country, asshole???