[Vision2020] Aftermath of Iraqi Voting: Oil Investors

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

All:

If you were considering voting in an election under military occupation, a 
military that goes house to house breaking down doors at gun point to arrest 
those suspected of opposing said military, arrests occurring in a legal vacuum 
with no guarantees of habeas corpus, or access to courts and lawyers offering a 
guaranteed defense of suspects, where the occupying military was known to 
torture suspects, would you feel free to vote in any manner to oppose the 
occupying forces?

And now on to more reality based discussion of the Iraq "election."  Read 
below.

4 p.m. ET -- Tuesday, February 1, 2005 

Aftermath of Iraqi Voting: 

ANTONIA JUHASZ, 

ajuhasz at ifg.org, 

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21100
 
Juhasz wrote the recent article "Of Oil And Elections." She said today: "The 
front-runner for the new Prime Minister of Iraq is Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's 
current Finance Minister who announced on Dec. 21 that his government was hoping 
to privatize its oil and that this would be 'very promising to the American 
investors and to American enterprise, certainly to oil companies.' ... Mahdi's 
party, the United Iraqi Alliance, the leading Shia political party, is 
expected to win the majority of votes once they are tallied, particularly given the 
fact that, as reported by AP, polls were largely deserted in cities across the 
Sunni Triangle, particularly Fallujah, Ramadi and Beiji. In the Sunni area of 
Azamiyah, the neighborhood's four polling centers did not open at all." Juhasz 
is project director at the International Forum on Globalization and a Foreign 
Policy In Focus scholar. 

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V2020 Post by Ted Moffett
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