How Much U.S. Help?

Monday, Oct. 04, 2004
President Bush and interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi insisted last week that Iraq would go ahead with elections scheduled for January, despite continuing violence. But U.S. officials tell TIME that the Bush team ran into trouble with another plan involving those elections — a secret "finding" written several months ago proposing a covert CIA operation to aid candidates favored by Washington. A source says the idea was to help such candidates — whose opponents might be receiving covert backing from other countries, like Iran — but not necessarily to go so far as to rig the elections. But lawmakers from both parties raised questions about the idea when it was sent to Capitol Hill. In particular, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi "came unglued" when she learned about what a source described as a plan for "the CIA to put an operation in place to affect the outcome of the elections." Pelosi had strong words with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in a phone call about the issue.

Rice spokesman Sean McCormack says, "I cannot in any way comment on classified matters, the existence or nonexistence of findings." But, McCormack says, "there have been and continue to be concerns about efforts by outsiders to influence the outcome of the Iraqi elections, including money flowing from Iran. This raises concerns about whether there will be a level playing field for the election.


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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041004-702122,00.html

I think someone caught them in the act.

Thanks for posting this
....
Mouthbows

Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a
pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents
at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington
handed control of the country to his interim government,
according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.

They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were
lined up against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the
maximum-security cell block in which they were held at
the Al-Amariyah security centre, in the city's south-western suburbs.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694568757.html?oneclick=true

Wouldn't bother rice if it was fixed.

one to post to this article. Isn't anyone
concerned about this?

CIA operation to aid candidates favored by Washington.

...
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(c) Buffy Sainte-Marie

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Oh the lies vary from place to place but the truth is
still the same, even in this town

Their tongues are silver forks
There's a lack of wisdom,
you can hear it on their breath
Windego

Third Worlders see it first: the dynamite, the dozers,
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They run in every race
Windego

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and Gold burns a hole in your soul
Well, Uranium burns a hole in forever
It just gets out of control

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He raised a crooked sixpence to hide a crooked style
He won a crooked race and smiled a crooked smile
Windego

Their tongues are silver forks
There's a lack of wisdom, you can hear it on their
breath
Windego.

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Our principle of Sacred Law is based on the mystery of the creature being, Crow. For us, Crow is a mystical creature who represents the principle operating behind illusion. We call the Great Mystery an illusion because we believe this Dreamtime we all live in is just that, a dream conjured up by Great Spirit behind which the true Reality exists unending.

I believe we have these concerns also. And we're going to bring DEMOCRACY to Iraq. Yeah, Bush's brand of Democracy. I never cease to be amazed at what this administration will stoop to. Yes, let's fix their "free" elections so we can have control over them. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Though an unqualified denial is out of the question.

...because I think it's terribly, terribly important news. But it was moved here. Fewer DU-ers are likely to see it here, unfortunately. That's a flaw with DU.

then I posted it in LBN under a different headline source
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x867561

"Condi-Pelosi catfight over CIA plot" we might get more readers for that LBN thread.