Liberty Is Not Spread at Gunpoint

[kerrygoddess]

Liberty Is Not Spread at Gunpoint
30 January 2005

John Nichols column in The Nation, makes a compelling argument for withdrawing troops from Iraq and he looks at how “ Occupation Thwarts Democracy” in Iraq.

Under pressure from the Bush Administration, political parties campaigning in this weekend's so-called "election" in Iraq did not proposed timetables for the withdrawal of US troops from their homeland.

This constraint upon the debate effectively denied the Iraqi people an honest choice. Polls suggest that the majority of Iraqis favor the quick withdrawal of US forces, yet the voters of that battered land were cheated out of a campaign that could have allowed them to send a clear signal of opposition to the occupation.

Despite this disconnect, when the voting was done, Administration aides declared a victory in President's Bush's crusade for "liberty." And thus was born the latest lie of an Administration that has built its arguments for the invasion and occupation of Iraq on a foundation of petty deception and gross deceit.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp?view=plink&id=298

[Kenneth ken]

1. I'd say bad headline

liberty can spread at gunpoint, that is how most revolutions, including the US went about it.

Liberty can not be imposed at gunpoint, which is more to the point of the article.