Iraq Poll: US agenda for Puppet regime, Legitimacy of Terror & Occupation

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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(It could be an irony of history that colonial, neo-imperialist powers led by so-called democracies of USA and UK are seen training their terror militaries in poll campaign techniques to favor the illegal occupiers in the Muslim nations and conduct of polls under their brute custody. They make sure some puppet regime is placed in each of them to justify their illegal invasion, occupation and genocides plus the destructions. (India also has a puppet regime, but without terror wars waged by the NATO rogue states).

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Since its invasion of the country of Iraqis under the president Saddam Hussein in March 2003, USA has held with military support third parliamentary election in Iraq on 06 March for 325 seats in the legislature as “the future of Iraq belongs to the people of Iraq” as proof declaration suggested from President Barack Obama. Obama has hailed a "milestone" in the history of Iraq, as it completed its second parliamentary election since the 2003 invasion. Obama repeated his vow to withdraw terror US combat troops from Iraq by the end of August, and all the remaining US forces by the end of next year. He praised the courage of voters who turned out.. "Today's voting makes it clear that the future of Iraq belongs to the people of Iraq. Today, in the face of violence from those who would only destroy, Iraqis took a step forward in the hard work of building up their country", Obama claimed, but one has to watch and see if he keeps his world. .

In the fray for Iraqi presidential race were some 6,529 candidates, 86 political parties and 20 electoral coalitions scrutinized by the Pentagon and FBI. Overall, however, a massive security operation involving hundreds of thousands of Iraqi troops and police, supported by US aircraft and helicopter gunships, prevented anti-occupation opponents from carrying out threatened attacks on polling stations. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said it “was a good day for the Iraqis”. In Baghdad, dozens of mortar shells rained down on several neighborhoods. Other cities also came under mortar and grenade attack.

Key issues in the campaign were security, services and disqualification of alleged Baathists. Early results on 12 March from Iraq's election suggested a tight contest may be developing between Puppet prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his main rival Iyad Allawi. Maliki's coalition leads in two Shia provinces south of Baghdad while Allawi's bloc is in the lead in two provinces to the north. Both men were expected to do well in those places and many votes are still to be counted. But there have been complaints about the count and some claims of fraud.

Voter turnout last week’s poll was 62% which was down on the 75% turnout figure for the 2005 general election. Queues were reported at polling stations in Sunni areas of the country, where many people in 2005 decided not to vote. About 19 million eligible voters out of 28 million and around 6,200 candidates from 86 factions competing, while 200,000 security personnel on duty in Baghdad. Previous votes were held in Jan 2005 (transitional national assembly), Oct 2005 (constitution), Dec 2005 first post-invasion parliament, and in Feb 2009 (local elections) A huge terror security operation was mounted, involving more than anti-Islamic 500,000 Iraqi security personnel. The border with Iran was closed, thousands of troops were deployed, and vehicles were banned from roads.

There have been a series of alleged violations, saying some of its votes had been removed from boxes and replaced by other ballots. "Insistence in manipulating these elections forces us to question whether the possibility of fraudulent results would make the final results worthless. We will not stand by with our arms crossed," a statement from the alliance said. The election commission says it will look into complaints of fraud, but officials say the main reason for the delay is that they have been overwhelmed by the task of counting votes.

A final result could be ready by the end of the month, although none is expected to win an outright majority. Four coalitions are likely to win the bulk of the seats in parliament. The main Kurdish parties again stood as a bloc, the Kurdish Alliance. They were challenged by a break-away grouping, the Movement for Change, which according to polling could win as many as 10 of the 43 national parliamentary seats elected in the Kurdish region. As in the previous parliaments, the Kurdish bloc will be seeking to function as kingmaker, delivering office to whichever of the larger Arab-based factions is prepared to give the best terms.

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India has a puppet government in Jammu Kashmir under India occupation. USA has such regimes in Islamic world, including Iraq and Afghanistan. The current puppet prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, contested the election at the head of the State of Law bloc, which is made up of his own Shiite fundamentalist Da’wa party and a section of the Sunni Arab “Awakening” movement in Anbar. The Awakening refers to the process during 2007 in which insurgent commanders convinced some 100,000 predominantly Sunni fighters to cease fighting and in return received lucrative US pay-offs. The rank-and-file insurgents received a US-paid stipend and a guarantee from the occupation forces and Maliki that they would stop the slaughter of Sunni civilians by US-backed Shiite death squads in the Iraqi military.
Today, Iraqi leaders are frauds and traitors. The Maliki government is putting a lot of pressure on the commission to support his as well as US cause in Iraq. The tenor of the fraud accusations suggests the government formation process will be protracted and acrimonious. Maliki's slate won two southern provinces as the official agents of USA contended with continued allegations of fraud and complaints about disqualified candidates. Former prime-minister Ayad Allawi, made a strong showing in two Northern provinces and is likely to become an influential force in the next government. The results -- from five of Iraq's 18 provinces -- are far from conclusive because they do not include Baghdad, which has the most seats in parliament, and other key areas. With more than 30 percent of the vote tallied in the southern provinces of Najaf and Babil, Maliki appeared to carve out a narrow victory over a rival coalition of Shiite parties. He was part of that coalition when he was elected to parliament in 2005, but he later built his own faction.

It is unlikely one party will form a government alone and there may be months of negotiations on a coalition. The partial results from the Independent High Electoral Commission come four days after balloting. The partial count shows Maliki's State of Law coalition leading in Najaf and Babil while Allawi's secular Iraqiya alliance was ahead in Diyala and Salahuddin. More results were expected by now, and that has led to growing questions over the process. Final results for all 18 provinces are not expected for a fortnight. Depending on the result, the formation of a new government could be protracted. After the December 2005 election, it took close to six months for the Shiite coalition to install puppet Maliki as prime minister and parcel out control of state ministries to various allies, the Kurdish bloc and token Sunni representatives. In 2010, the process could be even more volatile, as it is likely that two or three combinations may be able to get a parliamentary majority and form a government.

Trying to move out of US control manipulations, Maliki has sought to create a base of support within the bloated 600,000-strong security apparatus and among those sections of the population who simply want stability to rebuild their shattered lives. He has projected himself as a “strongman” who is prepared to suppress any opposition. In 2008, Maliki ordered major operations against those elements of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia in Basra, Amarah and Baghdad that had refused to obey the orders of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to lay down their arms and collaborate with the occupation. Maliki has also sought to whip up anti-Kurdish Arab nationalism, by opposing a constitutionally required referendum in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk on whether to affiliate with the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in the country’s north.

The main Shiite religious parties, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and the political movement of Moqtada al-Sadr, stood as part of the United Iraqi Alliance coalition (UIA). The alliance is expected to win a significant proportion of the seats in the majority Shiite provinces of the country’s south and the working class Shiite districts of Baghdad, such as Sadr City. The UIA has indicated it is prepared to enter into coalition with Maliki’s State of Law, as long as Maliki is not the prime minister. Throughout the election campaign, its rivals have repeatedly labelled the UIA as a puppet of the Iranian regime. Moqtada al-Sadr fueled the accusations by making a pre-election appeal for support from a press conference in Tehran. Washington is hoping to see a considerable weakening of the UIA in the Iraqi parliament. The alliance has waged a campaign focused on whipping up sectarian Shiite fears of a political resurgence by elements associated with the former, Sunni-dominated Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein. A UIA-controlled body, the Justice and Accountability Board, successfully banned hundreds of Sunni and secular candidates from standing in the election on the grounds they supported or had promoted Baathist ideology.

The bloc with the greatest sympathy from the Obama administration appears to be the Iraqiya coalition headed by former prime minister Iyad Allawi and current vice-president Tariq al-Hashemi. Iraqiya campaigned as a secular and nationalist opposition to both State of Law and the more overtly Shiite fundamentalist UIA. Allawi is a tried and tested servant of US imperialism. He was intimately involved with the Bush administration in plotting the US invasion of Iraq and was installed as the head of the first government created by the occupation regime in 2004. Iraqiya and Maliki’s State of Law vied for support from similar social layers—the security forces and the middle class, both Shiite and Sunni. It has made numerous condemnations of the UIA as an Iranian front and painted Maliki’s government as incompetent and sectarian. Nevertheless, there has been considerable speculation that Iraqiya will seek to form a coalition government with State of Law but with Allawi as the prime minister.

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Martyr for unilateral US fascism, President Saddam Hussein was assassinated by the Americans by using pre-paid Iraqi agents. Iraq continues to be occupied by close to 100,000 American troops. Iraq is in tatters. But USA wants a poll to continue to ruin the nation of brave Iraqis led then by Saddam. Far from its “long history of colonial rule” ending, Iraq has been reduced over the past seven years to a de-facto colony of the USA. Its so-called sovereign government takes no major decision without consulting the massive US embassy that dominates the central Baghdad skyline. The candidates who stood yesterday are representatives of the venal ruling elite that has been prepared to collaborate with a destructive and brutal occupying power in the hope of gaining privilege, position and wealth.

Over one million people have been killed in Iraq alone (some estimates put the Iraqi casualty at 1.5 million innocent people) and at least two million are living as refugees in neighboring countries. The majority of the population has suffered a staggering decline in living standards. Entire cities and suburbs are still in ruins as a result of US bombing and other operations to suppress Iraqi opposition to the invasion. Depleted uranium munitions have contaminated much of the country. A report this month documented a terrible increase in birth defects in the Anbar province city of Fallujah, which was virtually destroyed by American forces in 2004. Women are now being advised not to get pregnant. The most affected area is the working class suburb of al-Julan, where boys as young as 14 fought and died to protect their families and homes from US marines.

USA employed the political opposition against President Saddam to kill Iraqis as his “supporters”. USA has encouraged rampant corruption and crime in the society in order to control Iraqis. US Terror General David Petraeus coined the term “Iraqcracy” last month to describe the flagrant resort to bribery, intimidation and sectarian, tribal or ethnic appeals that marked the efforts of Iraqi politicians to win popular support. This reality, which the terror US occupation has created, will determine the make-up of the next Iraqi government as well. It can be stated in advance and without fear of contradiction that it will be an unstable pro-US puppet regime, riven by communalist tensions that could lurch into open civil war.

The ongoing terror wars in Islamic world by USA, UK, Israel and India as well as anti-Muslim terrorism by Russia and China make one point crystal clear: state terrorisms cannot be matched by private or non-state terrorism in any respect for the simple fact that the states have more resources economic and technological. State terrorism experts paid by the state terrorist agencies want all Muslim regimes to join the anti-Islamic combines led by USA-UK and encourage Pakistan to kill as many Muslims as possible as terrorists so that USA and UK could offer some more money to the leaders directly to their bank accounts.

The primary function of the next government will be to continue to legitimize the US claim that Iraq is now a sovereign state. It will nominally preside over the withdrawal of US combat troops in August and the “end” of the occupation at the end of 2011, when the remaining US forces are supposed to leave. In reality, the US plan is for an indefinite presence in the country. The “Strategic Framework” between Iraq and the US, which was drafted in the final months of the Bush administration and endorsed by Obama, dictates that there will be a “long term relationship in economic, diplomatic, cultural and security fields”. The US military will not be leaving its major bases at places like Balad, Al Asad and Tallil..

Thanks to US concerns and support for legitimacy for illegal occupation of an alien nation, the Iraqi incumbent Maliki looks likely to retain power at the head of his Shia-led coalition. He said the attacks "are only noise to impress voters - but Iraqis (followers of Saddam Hussein) are a people who love challenges and you will see that this will not damage their morale". But one of his main rivals, Iyad Allawi, has already criticised election organisers, accusing them of lax procedures, and demanded an investigation by the new parliament. The overall American strategy, and the real motive for the 2003 invasion, continues to be to dominate the Middle East and its energy resources in order to dictate terms to the United States’s European and Asian rivals. Whatever its final composition, the next Iraqi government will remain US puppet.

POST SCRIPT

There is a storng perception across the wolrd that US led terror war is illegal and has got anti-Islamic and energy goals. More andmore people see through the secret agenda of USA and UK in the slogan of democracy and rule of law which now means fraud and mischeif play on humanity. There has been significant opposition to the Iraq War across the world, both before and during the initial 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom and smaller contingents from other nations, and throughout the subsequent occupation. People and groups opposing the war include the governments of many nations which did not take part in the invasion, and significant sections of the populace in those which did. Several humanitarian groups have been campaigning to end the occupation of Iraq as well as Afghanistan plus Pakistan through action and media work. But the neo-imperilaist forces still depnd on their terror ammunitions ad deny any chance for diplomacy. USA and Uk fear world would laugh at them if they quit the occupation of Islamic world.

Rationales for opposition include the belief that the war is illegal according to the United Nations Charter, or would contribute to instability both within Iraq and the wider Middle East. Critics have also questioned the validity of the war's stated objectives, such as a supposed link between the country's Ba'athist government and the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and its possession of weapons of mass destruction "certified" by the Niger uranium forgeries. The latter was claimed by the United States during the run-up to the war, but no such weapons have since been found. Within the United States, popular opinion on the war has varied significantly with time. Although there was significant opposition to the idea in the months preceding the attack, polls taken during the invasion showed that a majority of Americans supported their country's action. However, public opinion had shifted by 2004 to a majority believing that the invasion was a mistake, and has remained so since then. There has also been significant criticism of the war from American politicians and national security and military personnel, including Generals who served in the war and have since spoken out against its handling.

The leaders of GST (global state terrorism) USA and UK care a damn for international law or global outcry or illegality involved in the invasion of both Iraq and Afghanistan as well as killing of Pakistanis by unleashing drones. Obviously, Iraq will have another puppet regime, no matter who wins and how much of manipulative tactics are applied to form the regime to aid the Americans. Worldwide, the war and occupation have been officially condemned by 54 countries and the heads of many major religions. Popular anti-war feeling is strong in these and other countries, including America's allies in the conflict, and many have experienced huge protests totaling some millions of participants. Elections in occupied Iraq have no justifications.

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From Dr. .Abdul Ruff Colachal: Specialist on State Terrorism; Chronicler of Freedom movements (Palestine, Kashmir, etc); Independent Columnist in International Affairs, Research Scholar (JNU) & the only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation in South Asia. "Democracies" like USA and India have zero tolerance to any criticism of their anti-Muslim and other aggressive pro-Hindu practices. Anti-Muslimism and anti-Islamism are as dangerous as "terrorism". Terrorism is caused by anti-Islamic forces. Truth does not require political or ideological correctness, not even selectively. Muslims supporting anti-Islamism are as much criminals as the global anti-Muslims are. Anti-Islamic forces & terrorists are using criminal elements for terrorizing the world and they are harming genuine interests of ordinary Muslims. We have many hypocrites among Muslims. Dr. Abdul Ruff (91-9961868309). Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal, 2010