From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 09:34:38 MST
Mike Butler quoted an interesting piece by Nick Cohen from the Guardian
supporting an Iraq invasion, which includes this pointer:
< Makiya, Salih and their comrades are fighting the political
battle of their lives against those 'Anglo-American audiences' in the
powerhouses of London and Washington who oppose a democratic settlement.
(See Makiya's article on page 20.) >
That piece in turn is well worth reading, and extremely disturbing:
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,896611,00.html
Our hopes betrayed
How a US blueprint for post-Saddam government quashed the hopes of
democratic Iraqis.
Kanan Makiya
Sunday February 16, 2003
The Observer
The United States is on the verge of committing itself to a post-Saddam plan
for a military government in Baghdad with Americans appointed to head Iraqi
ministries, and American soldiers to patrol the streets of Iraqi cities.
The plan, as dictated to the Iraqi opposition in Ankara last week by a
United States-led delegation, further envisages the appointment by the US of
an unknown number of Iraqi quislings palatable to the Arab countries of the
Gulf and Saudi Arabia as a council of advisers to this military government.
The plan reverses a decade-long moral and financial commitment by the US to
the Iraqi opposition, and is guaranteed to turn that opposition from the
close ally it has always been during the 1990s into an opponent of the
United States on the streets of Baghdad the day after liberation. [etc]
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