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Topic: Saddam to Declare Candidacy for Iraqi Elections
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Cueball
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posted 28 September 2004 02:05 AM
Saddam to Declare Candidacy for Iraqi Elections quote:
Overthrown Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was arrested by US forces last December, reportedly plans to run as a candidate in the Iraqi elections scheduled for January 2005. Saddam's lawyer Giovanni di Stefano told Denmark's B.T. newspaper that Saddam decided during one of their discussions that he would declare his candidacy for the elections. Stefano said that there was no law that prevented Saddam from appearing on the ballot. He added that Saddam hopes to regain his presidency and palaces via the democratic process.
God has Groucho Marx as a stand in....
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Patrick Mundy
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posted 29 September 2004 03:05 PM
I've noticed that many parties with the term "Democrat" usually have an opposite stance towards democracy.Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) for example. New Democratic Party and this German Democratic party that embraces Naziism.
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kukuchai
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posted 29 September 2004 11:32 PM
I heard the other day (maybe on the CBC) that the real Saddam was killed early on in the war.Do the Americans have one of Saddam's stand-ins? Or is the real Saddam sipping Mai-Tais on a beach in Tahiti whilst watching the war on CNN? Just a thought!
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arborman
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posted 30 September 2004 12:01 AM
Well, I imagine Iraqis will want to 'stay the course' and go with the president they know. Many would no doubt prefer a 'wrong and strong' president over a 'right and weak' leader. Can't go changing horses in midstream now.OK, sure, Hussein had some part in getting them into this nasty war , and he probably lied to them on occasion. He certainly locked up hundreds if not thousands of people without trial, legal representation or even charges. No doubt he raided the public treasury to enrich his friends and family, but hey, who wouldn't? The main thing is to be secure. Nevermind the devastated economy, the regular dying, the poverty, failing health system, all that stuff. People need to feel secure, from big bad scary things like IRAQ'S ENEMIES. So they will want to stick with their 'war president.' In fact, expressing doubt about him is tantamount to treason, since it would amount to giving succor to the ENEMIES OF IRAQ! So get with God, you traitors, and support the president! Because if you don't, you hate democracy and freedom.
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Cueball
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posted 30 September 2004 02:00 AM
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I heard the other day (maybe on the CBC) that the real Saddam was killed early on in the war.
Do the Americans have one of Saddam's stand-ins?Or is the real Saddam sipping Mai-Tais on a beach in Tahiti whilst watching the war on CNN? Just a thought!
As everyone knows Saddam a series of look-alike stand ins partly as a security precaution. Near the end of the war the Chair of the Revolutionary Command Council called in all of the look alikes for a meeting. He informed then that it was true that Saddam's bunker had been attacked. He told them that the good news was the their glorious leader was still alive. After a round of applause he then told them that the bad news was that Saddam had lost an arm.
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fuslim
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posted 30 September 2004 06:16 AM
You know, no one remains in power for 30 or so years without satisfying some sector of the population. Fear by itself doesn't make it.Saddam was of Sunni ethnicity and doubtless spread a fair bit of butter around that part of town. It's also true that Iraq was the most western of Middle Eastern Arab countries prior to the Gulf war. It was certainly not a Islamic republic, although towards the end Hussein tried to shore up his support by pretending to be somewhat more of a Muslim ('course that's no different than the phony Christianity of George Bush). Now it seems as if Iraq is headed towards a breakup, with probably a northern Kurdish state, a central Sunni state, and a southern Shia state. One of the interesting comments of a Pentagon adviser was that "thirty years of Ba'athist rule had given Iraqi's a national identity that superseded their tribal and religious identities." That will be all gone, and replaced with endless ethnic fighting, and increasing religious intolerance. Ultimately death and destruction will be the Iraqi's lot from now until whenever...thanks to US foreign policy. I believe it can be shown that the US prefers this outcome to any other, and deliberately planned for it. As long as there's chaos in Iraq, the biggest military (US occupation army) will have effective control over the oil. Democracy would be the end of US control of Iraqi oil, and the US will do anything to prevent that from happening. Will Saddam run for election? Who knows. However, it is for the people of Iraq to decide who runs their country, and who controls their oil. [ 30 September 2004: Message edited by: fuslim ]
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Rich L
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posted 30 September 2004 12:06 PM
quote:
Originally posted by kukuchai:
I heard the other day (maybe on the CBC) that the real Saddam was killed early on in the war.Do the Americans have one of Saddam's stand-ins? Or is the real Saddam sipping Mai-Tais on a beach in Tahiti whilst watching the war on CNN? Just a thought!
Yeah, Saddam had some radical plastic surgery done to change his appearance. Last I heard he was living in the U.S. and active politically there under an assumed name... I can't remember... I think it was Kerry something or other...
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