They're not going to let me cheat and surpress the people and keep them in the 11th century.
Posted on 01/29/2005 4:54:47 PM PST by Stultis
By Tom Perry, Los Angeles Times | January 9, 2005
FALLUJAH, Iraq -- As he navigated his Humvee through rubble-strewn streets, Lance Corporal Sunshine Yubeta articulated a question that is key to the Marines' mission here.
"I wonder," said the 23-year-old from Madras, Ore., nodding toward several sullen men on a corner, "if they hate us or like us."...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/09/in_fallujah_marines_try_a_new_tactic/
It looks like the same usual crap out of Perry.
Awwwww. My heart swells at the selfless compassion exhibited by these Arab terr.....errrr....human rights activists.
Think of Islam as a diode.
They're not going to let me cheat and surpress the people and keep them in the 11th century.
"The influence of the elections for us as democrats is disastrous," Syrian human rights activist Haytham Manna told Reuters from Paris. "When you marginalize wide sections of society from the political process ... this is not democracy."
yeah.... I couldn't get past the first sentence that said "Arab reformers".....like who the hell are they?.. Those who sit by the sideline not doing a damned thing except whining when someone else trys to do good in that miserable part of the world....
Reuters and the AP drink from the same cup of blind liberal ignorance......
Too late for the oppressors. Even if the turnout is low, even we leave tomorrow, even there is civil war and prolonged violence the die is cast. Once tasted the quest for freedom, even though rocky, is never ending.
Reuters is so pathetic.
If the Sunnis boycott that's their problem. Who ever heard of a group boycotting an election invalidating its legitimacy? I can think of a lot of people I would like to boycott our next election!
Interesting double standard there isn't it? Mad Mo and the Moon Worshippers can't stand competition!
Did I or did I not (maybe I dreamt it?) read somewhere that Reuters was owned by arabs?
Sounds like a research project coming up.
Dear Sunnis: There is still time to vote and participate in your country's governance. You can't scream "marginalization" when you had your chance.....
<< "They say violence and the prospect of a Sunni Arab boycott will undermine the poll." >>
If the apartheid-promoting Afrikaaner Nationalists had boycotted the South Africa elections that brought the ANC and Mandela to office -- would Rooters have called that "undermining the poll?"
I think not!
I agree. It is like the confederates in the US civil war starting the war and then stating all elections across the country (in 1864 and during reconstruction) were illegitimate until they violence stopped. The Sunnis have some nerve ... they are complaining they will not participate until the violence stops, and they are the ones causing the violence.
Arab human rights activists say the Iraqi election is deeply flawed and will give democracy a bad name. They say violence and the prospect of a Sunni Arab boycott will undermine the poll. Many Arabs, already suspicious of U.S. intentions in Iraq, are also dismissing the vote's credibility because of the presence of the 150,000 U.S. troops there.
Sounds like Tom Perry might be a screen name for Achmed al-Tikriti.
These Arab critics are just opponents of democracy, indulging in wishful thinking.
btt with no comment
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