Jonathan Beale (BBC): US gloss masks nerves over Iraq

Jack Rabbit

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Tue Feb-15-05 09:09 AM
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Jonathan Beale (BBC): US gloss masks nerves over Iraq

From the BBC Online
Dated Tuesday February 15

US gloss masks nerves over Iraq
By Jonathan Beale
BBC state department correspondent
The official White House reaction to the Iraqi election result has been nothing but positive.

President George W Bush has praised the 8.5 million Iraqis who "defied terrorists and went to the polls", adding that the US and its allies could all "take pride" in making the elections possible.

The US state department hailed the result as "a positive and significant accomplishment" . . . .

But there is no getting away from the fact that this is not the outcome President Bush would have wanted in an ideal world.

For a start the US administration would have liked interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's coalition to have done better than receive under 14% of the vote.

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With Allawi's poor showing and the success of a slate that made demanding of Bush a timetable for troop withdrawal and a rolling back of Bremer's decrees, the occupation was repudiated.

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UL_Approved

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Tue Feb-15-05 09:16 AM
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1. The election DID show what Iraq wants, more or less

This is just hilarious and heart breaking at the same time.

Iraq showed the world what it wanted, to have a free country. The U.S. got a lot more than it bargained for.

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Jack Rabbit

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Tue Feb-15-05 09:18 AM
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2. I'm not sure it showed what Iraqis want

However, it showed what they don't want is continued neocon occupation and interference with their lives.

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Briar

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Tue Feb-15-05 09:28 AM
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3. Nice to see someone at the BBC being honest

Generally they are pushing the Bush/Blair "It's a triumph, silly Sunnis are sorry they did not vote" line. Hugh Sykes and Paul Wood have been peddling coalition propaganda for months now.

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