When Do You Think the Iraqis Will Discover They Have Been Had??

[DemocracyInaction]

It isn't new to history that elected legislative 'assemblies' with a glut of parties is reduced to the proverbial "useless as tits on a bull"....and the Bush cartel knows it. In those cases, the power resides in the hands of whatever guy occupies their equivalent of an "Oval Office". That is exactly the way it will be in Iraq--and the Bush cartel knew that, too.

That "head boy" will be bought, paid for and run as a puppet of US government/corporations (one in the same). In other words, the way we usually operate. The Bush Coporate Cartel did not invade that country to free the oppressed minions; nor because they even remotely believed in danger from WMDs; nor because they believed they had one iota to do with 9/11. They invaded it for oil and natural resources and the hope of the Iraqis being a prime area to outsourcing more US jobs. They do not intend to divorce themselves from Iraq. They will just run it from half way around the world.

I wonder when the Iraqis will realize they have been made part of an elaborate smoke and mirrors act to try and fool the world and definitely the half-wit American public into believing that we have given power to "the people"??? The Bush Cartel knew it was only giving the Iraqi people one small (and easily manipulated) drop of democracy. They have not much more power now then they did under their previous dictatorship.

[robbedvoter]

1. Before our dems do (stolen election and all). They know.

One advantage of living in a dictatorship: you don't buy propaganda - the way people in this country do.
You'll get there in a generation or two. Only by then, you'll be as powerless as they are.

[GetTheRightVote]

2. I totally agree with you about your summary and I too wonder when ??

though I hope it is sooner then later.

:kick:

[LynnTheDem]

3. They already know.

Vote for Food.

Votes by threat.

Many Iraqis voted because they vote...they voted for Hussein, too. And they knew those votes didn't mean diddly, too.

[SmokingJacket]

4. They know.

After all those years of Saddam, they're more cynical than we are.

But no one's interviewing them.

[Inland]

5. Iraqis know the score.

For better or for worse, the iraqis know exactly what is going on in Iraq.

Each group hopes to survive Bush and come out on top.

[ottozen]

6. Iraq's a tad unmanageable, don't you think?

Perception may be reality in the US, but the streets of Iraq are condusive to sharing of information "for Iraqis only". The massive failure of the conglomerate to protect the civilians has not been ignored by the people there. Don't expect the country to lay down and accept whatever Bush proposes.

At any rate, the pan-arabist movement in Iraq has suffered a blow. The pan-american movement, likewise has suffered a blow.

By the way, who enters the votes into the computer? Whose software runs the computer?

[DemocracyInaction]

7. Otto---two points

Yes, point about the vote count cannot escape notice of about half the people here in the US. We've been victims of it!! Of course the fixing of who will be top dog is unbelievably easy. Secondly, it is so true about the perception these days passsing for reality. For god's sake it was just common sense that several thousand candidates running in "clusters" (not really parties) numbering 111 means that the resulting "people's assembly (at national and local levels)" can be nothing more than a debating society that will in a few years disolve into civil war. In far more stable societys like Italy and years ago in France, nothing could be accomplished because it was impossible to bring enough people together to even agree on what the hell temperature the room should be!!! And as I said, these goddamn Bush facists knew that just as they knew the soap opera American mindless morons would swallow this crap hook, line and sinker.