Under international law it is illegal for occupying nations to involve themselves in the political and economic life of the country. Elections under these conditions contravene international law. Of course no mention is made of handing back Iraqi businesses that have been taken over with profits siphoned off by US corporations, instead of going into rebuilding Iraq--another contravention of international law.
Obama is not pulling troops out, nor is he handing political and economic control back to the Iraq people. He voted for more death as I recall by funding Bush. He is another despotic fraud. The religious divisions are a result of the US playing off one faction against another and having blow up in their faces resulting in secretarian slaughter These posts are inane superficial propaganda that are aimed at playing down the true nature of the genocide that Obama sanctioned. You are moving steadily to the right as you seek to justify the fraud that Obama is trying to get away with, but won't. Rebuild the American Dream? No he Cannot. The American administration is a terrorist organization under both parties. On Nov 6, 9:50 pm, "mike [move on] 532" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iraq Looks Ahead to Provincial, National > Electionshttp://www.truthout.org/110508D > The voting could determine the state of the country US troops will > leave behind, one of the biggest foreign policy challenges facing the > new administration. > > Reporting from Baghdad - Iraq presents Barack Obama with the > complicated task of bringing troops home from a deeply unpopular war > and determining the role America will play as the devastated country > struggles to rebuild. > > American forces are slated to pull out of Iraq's cities by June > and leave Iraq by the end of 2011, according to a yet-to-be ratified > security agreement between the two countries. The U.S.-led invasion > began nearly six years ago and has resulted in 4,190 American deaths. > > But it is how the troops leave, and the state of the country they > leave behind, relatively secure or chaotic, that is sure to be one of > the biggest foreign policy challenges facing the new administration. > > U.S. officials say determining the level of stability in Iraq > depends on the much anticipated provincial elections scheduled for > late January. Those elections, along with national elections in late > 2009, could either push Iraq's religious and ethnic groups toward an > elusive reconciliation or further divide them. > > The elections will feature political races heavily influenced by > Iraq's complex and sectarian conflicts. > > They could exacerbate tensions in southern Iraq between U.S.- > backed Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's nationalist Islamic Dawa Party > and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, the two main Shiite Muslim > parties in the country. > > The results of the internal Shiite rivalry are likely to > determine > whether Iraq is broken up into semiautonomous regions or retains a > strong central government. The Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council wants to > push for the creation of a nine-province federal region, which Dawa > fears could jeopardize Iraq's unity. > > "Much is at stake in Basra and other oil-bearing governorates," > said Joost Hiltermann, an expert on Iraq for the International Crisis > Group think tank. "And Baghdad is the prize for those who seek the > restoration of strong central government in Iraq." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
