Sarah, I'veenjoyed your posts and agree with most of what you have written. I know that the situation in Iraq that you have articulated many times concurs with everything I've read and heard going back to the early 90s. I know that the assertions of atrocities and weapons capabilities are not some new propaganda that has been suddenly manufactured as a pretext for war. Many Iraqis who have escaped to the U.S. have been telling these stories for years.
However, you have mentioned a few times about the CIA being "anti-democracy" and this assertion is a new and perplexing one for me. I see the CIA as merely a government agency. I can't see that it has its own independent agenda on foreign policy. While they may well be some rogue agents and a competition with the other security agencies such as the FBI and NSA, the CIA is essentially directed by whatever administration is in power in the White House. Are you basing this position on the article in Vanity Fair where the INC contends that the CIA basically abandoned them in their fight to overcome Saddam? Most of the anti-war demonstrations going on in the US have been organized by openly declared Marxist organizations. ANSWER has been the prime mover in organizing the protests since nearly the day after 9/11. Are you familiar with them? If you go to their website, there are several links to organizations such as "Communist Workers of America," "American Communist Party," and the like. ANSWER tried to link more mainstream organizations affiliated with religious groups to their movement and there has been much controversy and objection from some of those organizations which have been unwittingly linked to them. There are certain anti-war church organizations and also a faction in the Libertarian party which is anti-war which have been trying to disassociate themselves from the Marxist anti-war organizations. Are you saying that the CIA has set all this up (the ANSWER affiliated groups) as a ruse behind the scenes? I'm just curious as to what information you may have on this. Kakki
