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Th Jan 27 -

RAED'S "SHAM ELECTIONS" -

I was very saddened to read Raed Jarrar's latest screed loosely about the Iraqi elections.

First, I was saddened to see him simply parroting secondhand nonsense: scurrilous claims that the forced removal of the Baathist war criminal regime was illegal and fantasies that the US went there to "liberate" the Iraqis. He says some other silly things and then demands that the US government pay him.

*...nothing justifies the illegal war that happened to “liberate” the country.*

No one is "liberating" the Iraqi people; they are in the process of liberating themselves. In contrast, Raed Jarrar is a zombie like a manchurian candidate, in that he just repeats what other airheads have bloviated. We hope to afford the Iraqi people the opportunity to think their own thoughts. And, so far, it looks like many of them are using that opportunity.

But then, Raed communicates in a much more honest, personal way than he has done before and, thus, we learn that the Jarrar family is not Iraqi at all; they are simply Iraqi Nationals.

*I am one of the people affected by the Iraqi political national government. I have relatives that were killed in all the wars, I have relatives that were thrown on the borders during the Iraqi Iranian war because of our Iranian descent.*

Prior to this more honest admission, we only knew that his father was a Jordanian National of Palestinian heritage. This new revelation throws a considerably different light on their family's viewpoints of the Iraqi people's situation.

I wish him and his girlfriend Niki well, even though it is quite clear at this point that he has no respect for the Iraqi people whatsoever.

Raed, it turns out, is not "in the middle." He's on the outside, looking in. And that appears to be the way he wants it.

Sham Iraqis view the exercise in
self-determination of the Real Iraqis
as Sham Elections.

I suppose that makes sense in its own futile way.

Excerpts are from Raed's:
Thurs, Jan 27th Entry

:: Raed in the Middle perma ::

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