Flesh-Eating Killer Zombie Death Bombs (ATTN: Paul Bremer)
I'm breaking the rules of the site again, sorry. I definitely plan on writing a letter to Bremer but the background for it, I'm afraid, is in need of it's own entry.
General Jay Garner was initialy the man chosen to be a sort of viceroy in Iraq following the American invasion. He was to act as el presidente extremo of the war torn nation during the time period between Saddam's reign and that of the American appointed bastard king in president's clothing (don't kid yourselves, "free"-elections for the Iraqis only meant that it wasn't going to cost America a dime). The Bush administration quickly learned of their mistake however after Garner began to fight tooth and nail against the neo-conservative "Iraqi Economy Plan" saying such ridiculous things as; "I don't think the Iraqi people need to go by the U.S. plan. I think that what we need to do is set an Iraqi governement that represents the freely elected will of the people. It's their country...their oil." Garner also foolishly suggested that Iraqi elections should be held as soon as possible, within 90 days of Saddam's dethroning, so that the Iraqi people might be able to choose their leader and quickly begin rebuilding their country to their liking. What a fool. Democracy? Freedom? Elections? Obviously these things have nothing to do with Bush's "Operation: Friendly Iraqi Democratic Liberation of Freedom". You see, the plan was to give Iraqis the opportunity to vote, but not before the most important matter was taken care of; The Iraqi Economy and it's ability to allow foreign nations to freely rob from it. General Garner was quickly fired by Donald Rumsfeld (The day after the above quote actualy) and replaced by a man named Paul Bremer. Bremer studied under Kissinger when king Henry was quoted as saying; "The issues are too important to be left to the voters." before greenlighting the assasination of Chile's elected president some 30 years ago. It's too bad for Garner, but hey, you can't make a sub-par commercial goods dumping ground omelette without breaking a few legs. Did I say legs, sorry, I meant eggs. Good ol' whitebred American eggs. And wheat. And a vast number of other products that the Iraqi people have always been able to farm or manufacture themselves. You see, the Iraqis were promised that they would have a vote, not a job. Allow me to explain: Immediately after Bremer replaced Garner he proceeded in pushing back the election date again and again and again. While he did this he also got to work on redefining Iraq's economic and foreign trade regulations. These new regulations, set by an American, were all stamped with the friendly signature of "for 2004 and all subsequent years" meaning that a future government elected by Iraqis couldn't change them. One of the actions taken was to sell off all Iraq's national banks to foreign investors. Another was to remove all trade tariff protection that Iraq had, meaning that imports from foreign nations can not be taxed by the Iraqi government. What this means is that Iraq was easily made a free-for-all for huge multi-national corporations that the local Iraqi manufacturers have no chance of competing with, so Iraqis are shit out of luck and shit out of work. The multi-nationals didn't waste any time either. Iraq was flooded shortly after the tariff removal by tons upon tons of wheat from American manufacturer Cargill. The Iraqi wheat farmers were helpless and are now out of work. That's just one example. The unemployment rate in U.S. occupied Iraq is now at 60%. At what price freedom?
General Jay Garner was initialy the man chosen to be a sort of viceroy in Iraq following the American invasion. He was to act as el presidente extremo of the war torn nation during the time period between Saddam's reign and that of the American appointed bastard king in president's clothing (don't kid yourselves, "free"-elections for the Iraqis only meant that it wasn't going to cost America a dime). The Bush administration quickly learned of their mistake however after Garner began to fight tooth and nail against the neo-conservative "Iraqi Economy Plan" saying such ridiculous things as; "I don't think the Iraqi people need to go by the U.S. plan. I think that what we need to do is set an Iraqi governement that represents the freely elected will of the people. It's their country...their oil." Garner also foolishly suggested that Iraqi elections should be held as soon as possible, within 90 days of Saddam's dethroning, so that the Iraqi people might be able to choose their leader and quickly begin rebuilding their country to their liking. What a fool. Democracy? Freedom? Elections? Obviously these things have nothing to do with Bush's "Operation: Friendly Iraqi Democratic Liberation of Freedom". You see, the plan was to give Iraqis the opportunity to vote, but not before the most important matter was taken care of; The Iraqi Economy and it's ability to allow foreign nations to freely rob from it. General Garner was quickly fired by Donald Rumsfeld (The day after the above quote actualy) and replaced by a man named Paul Bremer. Bremer studied under Kissinger when king Henry was quoted as saying; "The issues are too important to be left to the voters." before greenlighting the assasination of Chile's elected president some 30 years ago. It's too bad for Garner, but hey, you can't make a sub-par commercial goods dumping ground omelette without breaking a few legs. Did I say legs, sorry, I meant eggs. Good ol' whitebred American eggs. And wheat. And a vast number of other products that the Iraqi people have always been able to farm or manufacture themselves. You see, the Iraqis were promised that they would have a vote, not a job. Allow me to explain: Immediately after Bremer replaced Garner he proceeded in pushing back the election date again and again and again. While he did this he also got to work on redefining Iraq's economic and foreign trade regulations. These new regulations, set by an American, were all stamped with the friendly signature of "for 2004 and all subsequent years" meaning that a future government elected by Iraqis couldn't change them. One of the actions taken was to sell off all Iraq's national banks to foreign investors. Another was to remove all trade tariff protection that Iraq had, meaning that imports from foreign nations can not be taxed by the Iraqi government. What this means is that Iraq was easily made a free-for-all for huge multi-national corporations that the local Iraqi manufacturers have no chance of competing with, so Iraqis are shit out of luck and shit out of work. The multi-nationals didn't waste any time either. Iraq was flooded shortly after the tariff removal by tons upon tons of wheat from American manufacturer Cargill. The Iraqi wheat farmers were helpless and are now out of work. That's just one example. The unemployment rate in U.S. occupied Iraq is now at 60%. At what price freedom?
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