Comments on: Iraq http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/11/16/1961 Every day the Prime Minister's Spokesman meets a small coterie of political journalists known as 'the lobby' for a topical chat, or 'briefing'. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:08:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: PapaLazzzaru http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/11/16/1961#comment-3827 PapaLazzzaru Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:19:57 +0000 http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2005/11/16/1961#comment-3827 "Asked what impact the 16 December elections would have on deployment in Iraq and whether it would facilitate withdrawal, the PMOS said that people should first of all recognise the significant achievement that the elections would represent. 15 million voters had registered for the elections next month. That was on top of the 10 million that had voted for the referendum. 317 parties and over 1000 lists had registered." Please! There are 300 MILLION people in supposedly democratic America - but that didn't stop BushCo from fiddling at least one election (and more than likely 3 in total, so far). Here in the UK, the supposed home of democracy, we are trying to push through legislation to bring back internment, and our own track record on voting fraud is not the best in the world, as the bi-elections in Birmingham and Manchester last year should remind people. So how the PMOS can keep a straight face while pointing to a load of statistics about supposedly democratic elections in Iraq (a country under military occupation and on the brink of civil war, let's not forget) and actually expect people to BELIEVE them is beyond me. I mean, we KNOW how many people have enrolled, how many parties, blah de blah. But at the end of all that it still didn't stop the USA from getting it's own puppet (Chalabi the Embezzler) to within spitting distance of the hot seat - and may well yet eventually sit in that seat. So I find the PMOS assertions laughable in the extreme, and I only wonder how supposedly honest and honourable people can continue to peddle such obvious lies without having some kind of breakdown (preferably in front of the cameras, though!) And right from the off the use of the words "insurgents" and "insurgency" demonstrates quite amply that the PMOS and the rest of the government (for whom the PMOS is effectively a mouthpiece) care nothing for the truth of the matter. For they know that there is no insurgency; there is a resistance movement, sure, but it is an outright and outrageous LIE (I wish I could really give that word the emphasis it truly deserves...) to attempt to claim that all anti-Coalition activity is part of an insurgency. As many of us have pointed out time and time again, how would YOU react if the bloody Yanks were strolling around YOUR streets waving their guns around, and kicking your doors in when you're sitting down to dinner? And let's not forget the (less than) honourable part played by the main stream media; apologists and facilitators for a corrupt government, one and all. Their silence condemns them to a fate worse than a fate worse than death. I think Edmund Blackadder said that. "Asked what impact the 16 December elections would have on deployment in Iraq and whether it would facilitate withdrawal, the PMOS said that people should first of all recognise the significant achievement that the elections would represent. 15 million voters had registered for the elections next month. That was on top of the 10 million that had voted for the referendum. 317 parties and over 1000 lists had registered."

Please! There are 300 MILLION people in supposedly democratic America - but that didn’t stop BushCo from fiddling at least one election (and more than likely 3 in total, so far). Here in the UK, the supposed home of democracy, we are trying to push through legislation to bring back internment, and our own track record on voting fraud is not the best in the world, as the bi-elections in Birmingham and Manchester last year should remind people.

So how the PMOS can keep a straight face while pointing to a load of statistics about supposedly democratic elections in Iraq (a country under military occupation and on the brink of civil war, let’s not forget) and actually expect people to BELIEVE them is beyond me. I mean, we KNOW how many people have enrolled, how many parties, blah de blah. But at the end of all that it still didn’t stop the USA from getting it’s own puppet (Chalabi the Embezzler) to within spitting distance of the hot seat - and may well yet eventually sit in that seat. So I find the PMOS assertions laughable in the extreme, and I only wonder how supposedly honest and honourable people can continue to peddle such obvious lies without having some kind of breakdown (preferably in front of the cameras, though!)

And right from the off the use of the words "insurgents" and "insurgency" demonstrates quite amply that the PMOS and the rest of the government (for whom the PMOS is effectively a mouthpiece) care nothing for the truth of the matter. For they know that there is no insurgency; there is a resistance movement, sure, but it is an outright and outrageous LIE (I wish I could really give that word the emphasis it truly deserves…) to attempt to claim that all anti-Coalition activity is part of an insurgency. As many of us have pointed out time and time again, how would YOU react if the bloody Yanks were strolling around YOUR streets waving their guns around, and kicking your doors in when you’re sitting down to dinner?

And let’s not forget the (less than) honourable part played by the main stream media; apologists and facilitators for a corrupt government, one and all. Their silence condemns them to a fate worse than a fate worse than death. I think Edmund Blackadder said that.

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