XPost: alt.activism, alt.peace, ny.politics 
 XPost: nyc.politics 
 From: ob110ob@att.net 
  
 On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:23:49 GMT, slim 
  wrote: 
  
 > 
 > 
 >Phil wrote: 
 >> 
 >> On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:01:19 GMT, "Freedom Fighter"  
 >> wrote: 
 >> 
 >> >JOIN THE SPRING & SUMMER OF PROTEST & RESISTANCE! 
 >> > 
 >> >The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition's rapid response analysis and 
 >> >announcement of plans for a Spring and Summer of 
 >> 
 >>  
 >> 
 >> Hopefully, these'll be more successful than last weekend's protests. 
 >> 
 >> Maybe if cake and punch was offered... 
 > 
 >ELEVEN HUNDRED KILLED AND WOUNDED LAST MONTH! 
 > 
 >Rummsey said he is clueless. 
 > 
 >Bush doesn't have an answer. 
  
   And the answer is...  We are not an Occupational Army! 
 Being an occupier implies that there is a gov't body in 
 place that could take control if only the occupation were to 
 end. 
  
   That's the fallacy here that is misleading everyone!  In 
 truth, the gov't collapsed completely after the invasion, 
 and/or the invading force swept away what remained.  Thus, 
 in reality what we have here is nothing less than a Military 
 Junta.  And what was set up is not an occupational 
 authority, but in fact a provisional government! 
  
    The distinction is fine but non-the-less very important. 
 Because the new Iraqi government will be one, that is 
 created and imposed by the provisional government, not one 
 that is merely going to be allowed to resume it's command. 
  
   This is why we need help, since any attempt by us to 
 create any new form of gov't, will be seen as a design that 
 Iraqi nationals will eschew.  No matter, be it good or bad, 
 just that it has a foreign taint to it, it will be 
 rejectable out of hand as repugnant.   In fact,  such 
 rejection will be and is an available and important plank in 
 any new platform for domestic policy. 
  
   So, Bush will be unable to remove such a taint from 
 anything, no matter what he does, certainly not by playing 
 semantics.  It is either pass control to a diverse group 
 that can, at the least, win consent and form consensuses 
 with the people, or remain and induce the entire region to 
 spin slowly out of control. 
  
   Clearly Bush doctrine "U parka my place, I breaka U face," 
 isn't working 
    Obwon 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)