6A, 6B, 6C and 6D. The attack on Iraq accomplished just what? They can vote?

Let's see, we sacrificed the lives of a few thousand Americans to rid Iraq of a Muslim fundamentalist who despises Americans, Christians, and Jews to replace him with a Muslim fundamentalist who despises Americans, Christians, and Jews, who is beating the secular, 'moderate' candidate backed by the U.S.

We gave them free elections and they put back into power almost what we removed from power, the only difference being the sect of Islam. Well, that's not the only difference. The new guy is an Ayatollah from IRAN (haven't we had trouble with them before?).

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL

U.S. 'in for a shock'

In early election results, Shiite cleric's alliance trouncing Washington's favorite

Borzou Daragahi, Chronicle Foreign Service

Friday, February 4, 2005

Baghdad -- Partial results from Sunday's election suggest that U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a list with the backing of Iraq's senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, diminishing Allawi's chances of retaining his post in the next government.

The partial totals so far show the Iraqi List headed by Allawi, a secular Shiite and onetime CIA protege, trailed far behind with only 18 percent of the votes, despite an aggressive television ad campaign waged with U.S. aid. A lopsided majority of votes, 72 percent, went to the United Iraqi Alliance list, topped by a Shiite cleric who lived in Iran for many years and whose Sciri party has close ties to Iran's clerical regime.

More than a third of the alliance's vote came from Baghdad, the cosmopolitan capital where Allawi had been expected to fare well.

The alliance "is a very diverse group of people, from Westernized independents to Sunni sheikhs to people who really believe in an Islamic state, " one Western diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity said of the alliance on Wednesday. "It will be hard to maintain unity."

TG: No unity? What good is this doing them?

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6B. Free Elections in Iraq?

This point is stunning enough that it certainly could stand on it's own, but since it's related to #6 on Scorecard II, I'll label it 6B so no one can claim I'm 'milking' any of these.

This further information comes from the 2-21-05 New American magazine article, "Who 'Won' in Iraq's Elections?", p. 5.

Remember when all the conservatives who only see the veneer got so giddy because of the "free" elections in Iraq? It was such a great thing to see so many Iraqis flock to the polling places at great risk. Regardless of the problems with the attack on Iraq - at least THIS was a good thing. Wasn't it?

In point #6 we saw that Bush's candidates were getting trounced by one of the bad guys, Iranian-born Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

Well, that's the *good* news - it gets much worse.

The facts present a very disturbing truth, so those of you who want to keep your eyes, ears, hearts, and minds closed to reality can return to your television sets now. Better to waste your time filling your mind with sewage than be disturbed by the truth (that's sarcasm).

Originally, the Bush administration wanted their hand-picked coalition gov't and constitution to be installed. That's no surprise, although it was surprising that the coalition gov't included several of Saddam's Generals mixed with a few Communists, and the constitution removed the rights of Iraqi citizens to bear arms and practice religious freedom.

But al-Sistani insisted on democratic elections. Knowing that his Shiite Muslims held a majority gave him a good chance to win, unless there was too much rebellion among the Shiite citizens. But the Ayatollah had an ace up his sleeve.

Of course Bush had to go along with the free elections, after all, we were forcing freedom on the people we attacked. We had to pretend like we wanted them all along. Bush probably thought his puppets had a reasonable change to win among the Iraqis who embraced our invading soldiers with open arms (the election showed that there may have not as been as many Iraqis who were happy we're occupying their country as the Bush administration has claimed).

But then Ayatollah al-Sistani played his final card. He issued a "fatwa", a Muslim religious order, commanding the Shiites to go to the polls and support the Shiite slate of al-Sistani. So those multitudes flocking to the polls were not exercising newly given freedom, they were obeying a decree of their "Pope", with the risk of hell if they disobeyed. So now Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is Iraq's "freely and democratically elected" dictator!

Who knows who those people would've really voted for had they actually been voting freely? In any case, the fact is (I warned you to go back to your television while you had the chance), 1,500 Americans have died, 10,000 more have been wounded, and over $100 Billion of taxpayer's money has been spent to install an Ayatollah in Iraq similar to the one in Iran who gave us such trouble the past few decades.

Come to think of it, the Iranian Ayatollah despotism is giving us some trouble right now, so much that they are our probable next target in the war on terror. So the most ironic thing about this is we are about to fight another war because they have the SAME kind of government in Iran that we just installed in Iraq (Don't forget, we installed Saddam in Iraq in the first place as well as deposing the Shah of Iran which brought on Ayatollah Khomeini.)

We'll never have to worry about running out of enemies to fight in this fraudulent war on terror if we keep creating them as we go along.

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6C. Iraqi Election Fraud

It's hardly surprising that substantial charges of fraud have been brought up pertaining to the recent Iraqi elections. With the Shiite Muslims running the elections it's not difficult to believe that other groups and religions would be discriminated against.

Assist News is reporting that of the 1.4 million Assyrian Iraqi Christians, only 32,000 were recorded as having voted. That's a turnout of a whopping 2.3% in an election being hailed for high turnouts. A radical Muslim Ayatollah dictatorship that discriminates against Christians. That's what our men fought and died for to install in Iraq.

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6D. Another American-backed Candidate Withdraws.

The elections in Iraq have turned out to be a total disaster for America. First, Iranian-born Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani declared a "fatwa", ordering the majority Shiite Muslims to vote for him over the American-backed Ayad Allawi. Then we saw that only 2.3% of the Assyrian Iraqi Christians registered votes, though the Bush administration was lauding the high turnout of the elections. Now we have another American-backed candidate pulling out.

Ahmad Chalabi was a front-runner for the prime minister position, but the United Iraqi Alliance, the winning Shiite organization of al-Sistani, pressured Chalabi to withdraw in favor of UIA candidate Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the interim V.P. His only opposition for the slot will come from Allawi, who has already been beaten back by the UIA.

These elections are beginning to look like Communist elections where favorite candidates are threatened by opponents and withdraw meekly. Those who resist are often found dead.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050222/D88DJJ8O0.html

Shiites Pick al-Jaafari As Iraq PM Nominee

Feb 22, 8:54 AM (ET)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Interim Iraqi Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari was chosen as his Shiite ticket's candidate for prime minister Tuesday after Ahmad Chalabi dropped his bid, senior alliance officials said.

Pressure from within the ranks of the United Iraqi Alliance, which won Iraq's landmark Jan. 30 election, forced the withdrawal of Chalabi, a one-time Pentagon favorite, said Hussein al-Moussawi from the Shiite Political Council, an umbrella group for 38 Shiite parties.

"They wanted him to withdraw. They didn't want to push the vote to a secret ballot," al-Moussawi said. The office of Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, confirmed that Chalabi had withdrawn his bid to be prime minister.

"Chalabi announced his withdrawal and everyone agreed on al-Jaafari. Then Chalabi declared his support to al-Jaafari," said Haytham al Husaini, a top al-Hakim aide. SCIRI, the main group making up the alliance, tried for days to persuade Chalabi to quit the race, some of its senior officials said. Al-Jaafari's only other likely opponent for the post would be interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who was nominated for the job by his group.

The Iraqi List got only 14 percent of the vote - or 40 seats - in the election.

The conservative Al-Jaafari, a 58-year-old family doctor, is the main spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party, which waged a bloody campaign against Saddam Hussein's regime in the late 1970s. Saddam crushed the campaign in 1982 and Dawa based itself in Iran.

TG: On what grounds do they call this killer a 'conservative'? Is that just another way to give the word conservative a bad connotation by association? Notice too his connections with Iran, just like Ayatollah al-Sistani.