Boy, who thought that when we told Iraq that we wanted to form a
democracy there, that they would think we meant that old-fashioned
style of democracy that went out of favor with the coronat... I mean
election of Bush II. You know the kind: where elected officials say
what they think instead of what they are told to say.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/world/middleeast/23iraq.html>
( -or- http://tinyurl.com/kuyoa )
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The speaker of the Iraqi Parliament criticized the American
government’s involvement in Iraq on Saturday, likening the invasion
and its consequences to “the work of butchers” and demanding that the
American authorities disentangle themselves from Iraq’s political
affairs.
The speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a Sunni Islamist who quickly
developed a reputation for provocative public comments after his
election in late April, also said the American government wanted Iraq
“to stay under the American boot.”
“We know there was a corrupt regime in Saddam, but a regime should be
removed by surgery, not by butchering,” he said during a speech at a
United Nations-sponsored conference on transitional justice. “The
U.S. occupation is butcher’s work under the slogan of democracy and
human rights and justice.”
“Leave us to solve our problems,” he continued. “We don’t need an
agenda from outside.” He did not specifically call for the withdrawal
of American troops from Iraq. Sunni Arab leaders have increasingly
said they need American troops here to protect them from Shiite
militias and Shiite-led government forces.
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