Prominent Iraqi slams handover

[seemslikeadream]

29jun04
A FORMER senior Iraqi diplomat now living in Australia today condemned the Iraq handover as little more than a superficial handshake to pass power to a select few.

Dr Mohammed Al Jabiri said Iraqi people would not have sovereignty under the new arrangement and would continue to live in miserable conditions without basic necessities.


"It's only a handover to a few who have been appointed by the occupiers. The people themselves haven't received anything, so there's no sovereignty."

Dr Al Jabiri said while Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi was a close friend of his, he had serious reservations about the leader's role.

"Allawi's a nice guy but he's not elected on the people's behalf," he said.

Dr Al Jabiri, the former Iraqi ambassador in Spain, was recalled from his post in 1980, shortly after Saddam Hussein took power.
The 67-year-old said that during his recent visit home he saw Iraqis going without food, water, electricity, sewage treatment and other necessities.

"People have started to think the period Saddam (Hussein) ruled was better than this. It's appalling."

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[shraby]

1. What is going to happen when

they start to register people to vote? People in Afghanistan are getting killed for having voter registration cards on them.

[Cha]

2. But the American mainstream media continues

to cover for the bush cabal. That's why Moore's movie is so important and a bloomin' miracle to be out there. It's an indictment of the media.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. This is just the first trickle of the flood to come.

The earlier date threw off more than just the insurgent reaction.
Buxh isn't getting out of his self imposed nightmare this easily.

[kikiek]

4. Great post. They made it look so good. It was a photo op handover.

Disgusting. Adding insult to injury they hand it over because of polls. Not because they have made it stable enough to do it.

[Yupster]

5. So what does he want?

Should the US stay in charge and send 500,000 more soldiers until everything's peachy?

Will anything ever be peachy while the US is in there?

I really feel a lot of the resistance is just because we're there. If we'd go away, a lot of the problems can be worked out by themselves.

I don't get this criticism?

Does he want us out, or more in?

[struggle4progress]

6. kick

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