Iraqi People Vote For Candidate Backed By The United States!

[Christians4LessGvt]

Iraqi PM Maliki sweeps polls, defeats pro-Iranian bloc

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
March 9, 2010, 2:11 PM (GMT+02:00)


Nouri Maliki wins another term as Iraqi PM

Preliminary election results of Iraq's general election are reported by debkafile's Middle East sources as an impressive victory for the incumbent prime minister Nouri Maliki's State of Law Coalition, which was backed by Washington.

He has carried nine out of 19 provinces and the capital Baghdad, and looks like commanding around 100 of the 325 seats in parliament. The Tehran-backed Iraqi National Alliance - INA - led by ex-prime minster Ibrahim Jafari, trailed Maliki with 45-50 seats. Because this alliance was a conglomeration of Iraq's pro-Iranian factions - Moqtada Sadr's radicals, the Dawa group, Amer al-Hakim's supporters and Ahmad Chalabi - Iran faces the loss of significant support in the new Iraqi parliament.

Maliki's foremost contender, ex-prime minister Iyad Allawi and his al-Iraqiya secular alliance of liberal Shiites and Sunni Muslims won 70 mandates. The Saudi royal house and Syrian president Bashar Assad had backed him to the hilt in the hope of unseating Maliki altogether. At the same time, the Allawi grouping is now in line as leading partner in a Shiite-Sunni coalition under Maliki's premiership. A third partner would be the Kurdish bloc lead by president Jalal Talabani and Kurdistan leader Masoud Barzani, which came third with 50 parliamentary seats.

debkafile's Middle East sources report that Washington has good reason to celebrate the Iraqi election's outcome even before the final results are published later this month. A government of these three blocs would not only be pro-American but stable enough to ward off attempts to stir up civil strife.

Our military sources report, with the fear of post-election unrest receding, there is now no reason to slow down the US military departure from Iraq which can proceed up to August according to the timeline laid out by president Barack Obama.

Our sources add: Although voter turnout was 62 percent, down from the previous election, Al Qaeda failed to disrupt the vote despite attacks which killed least 38 and injured dozens on polling day. Although some 500 Sunni candidates were barred from running for alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath party, voting in the Sunni-dominated Anbar province was around 61 percent. The highest voter participation - 80 percent - was registered in Kurdistan.

[sirs]

Lemme jump Tee's gun and claim how this is proof positive of the U.S. functioning as the puppet master to Iraq's government.  Dictating how high they'll jump, when we say "jump"     

BTW, how are those oil wells coming along?  You know, the ones we went into Iraq in the 1st place for.  Obviously we're trucking and shipping every drop directly to America, right?

[Christians4LessGvt]

If the Iraqi people vote for the same candidate the US supports they are puppets.
But if the Iraqi people vote in the candidate Iran supports...well ....hell thats A-OK!
 

[sirs]

You're catching on, Cu4     

[Michael Tee]

<<If the Iraqi people vote for the same candidate the US supports they are puppets.
<<But if the Iraqi people vote in the candidate Iran supports...well ....hell thats A-OK!>>

LOL.  Let's get real, just for once.

When the Iraqi people vote in an "election" held under the guns of a foreign occupying force of about 200,000 men, the whole thing is a farce and the results are totally meaningless.  End of story.

[BT]

There are 96k troops in Iraq at the moment and the only ones shooting during the election was Al Queda.

[Amianthus]

When the Iraqi people vote in an "election" held under the guns of a foreign occupying force of about 200,000 men, the whole thing is a farce and the results are totally meaningless.  End of story.

So, the vote for Anschluss in Austria was a farce and the results totally meaningless as well?

[Michael Tee]

<<There are 96k troops in Iraq at the moment and the only ones shooting during the election was Al Queda. >>

More or less what I originally said - - 200,000 (about 100,000 military and an approximately equal no. of "contractors.")

They're not shooting any more than the Nazis had to be shooting in Occupied Europe, but they're not there to build schools, roads and hospitals either.  They render the "election" results meaningless and farcical.

[Michael Tee]

<<So, the vote for Anschluss in Austria was a farce and the results totally meaningless as well?>>

In Austria, there was a lot of support for pan-Germanism and Anschluss before the invasion, there was a vote on the Anschluss in which the anti-Nazis were probably suppressed to some extent, so of course the results are somewhat tainted, but the fact remains that most Austrians served the Nazi regime enthusiastically and from Hitler himself down to the most obscure Nazi war criminals made huge contributions to the Holocaust and the Nazi threat to the world.   They sure as hell weren't the innocent, brave, courageous, music-loving, anti-Nazi resistance fighters that bullshit artists like you and The Sound of Music try to make them out to be.

[Amianthus]

In Austria, there was a lot of support for pan-Germanism and Anschluss before the invasion, there was a vote on the Anschluss in which the anti-Nazis were probably suppressed to some extent, so of course the results are somewhat tainted, but the fact remains that most Austrians served the Nazi regime enthusiastically and from Hitler himself down to the most obscure Nazi war criminals made huge contributions to the Holocaust and the Nazi threat to the world.

Yeah, I guess having armed German Wehrmacht stationed in the polling places, actually checking the ballots to make sure the Austrians "voted properly", was just "somewhat tainted".

Got any evidence that the US did more than the Wehrmacht during the Anschluss vote to "taint" it? I had not heard that there were armed US forces checking each and every ballot in Iraq as the vote proceeded to make sure that everyone "voted properly"...

[sirs]

Don't hold your breath.  If anything, expect "evidence" analogus to that of Bush stealing the 2000 election.  In other words, don't expect any

[Christians4LessGvt]

but they're not there to build schools, roads and hospitals either.

Girls Return to School in Mazar-e-Sharif
USAID renovates school for 5,000 girls who had been banned for more than six years
Mazar-e-Sharif  | Sunday, June 01, 2003

On November 20, 2002, five thousand girls walked in the doors of the Sultana Razia Girls' School
after being banned for more than six years. Located in Mazar-e-Sharif, this school is one of the
largest girls' schools in northern Afghanistan. USAID helped with the renovation which cost
more than $200,000 and included the restoration of thirty-two fully functional classrooms.
This project is one of many which are part of a joint initiative between the governments of
Afghanistan and the United States to build or rehabilitate 1,000 schools over the next three years.



Before
Sultana Razia Girls? School was closed during the Taliban regime and used as
a refuge for Taliban forces. As a result, the school was destroyed and then
abandoned when the Taliban fell from power.

Photo: IOM-ATI staff


After
Five thousand girls now attend the Sultana Razia Girls' School renovated by USAID.
During the opening ceremony, a 21-year-old student said "I want to become a lawyer
because I want to bring justice and freedom to Afghanistan ... especially for women.
"One of her teachers added, "To teach makes me feel like I am helping Afghanistan.
I couldn't fight before, but now I can help make Afghanistan better.?

http://afghanistan.usaid.gov//en/Article.2.aspx

[Christians4LessGvt]

but they're not there to build schools, roads and hospitals either.

Laptops Create Classrooms of the Future
Public-private partnership provides Afghan students with One Laptop per Child computers.
Kabul, Afghanistan  | Thursday, December 24, 2009


Photo: USAID/ASMED

Afghan students now have the opportunity to learn using computers and the Internet thanks to USAID, the One Laptop per Child Foundation, the Afghan Government, and private sector partners.
Each morning, Hamida, an eleven-year-old student in Kabul, packs her schoolbag.  Alongside her pens and books, she carries a bright green-and-white laptop.  "It's like a friend and teacher to me," she says. "I can look and try to solve questions and spend my time learning."

After years of war, instability, and times when such technology was banned, USAID is bringing laptops designed to improve education into Afghan schools.  Computers like Hamida's provide students with vast educational resources including digital libraries, educational pages, word processing, databases, and access to email and the Internet.

This classroom of the future is being piloted in Afghanistan today thanks to an innovative public-private partnership between USAID, the U.S.-based One Laptop per Child Foundation (OLPC), the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Roshan Social Programs, and Afghan IT company Paiwastoon Networking Services.

The laptops, designed by OLPC, use just a quarter of the energy of a regular laptop and can be either solar or foot powered.  With 7.5 high-resolution screens that can be read in the dark and in direct sunlight, and watertight protective outer cases with Dari or Pashto keyboards, they are well suited to overcome the unique challenges of Afghanistan.

The laptops are not only for use in the classroom.  Equipped with Internet connectivity, educational software, and a small business tutorial and market information toolkit provided by USAID, the computers are a valuable tool for the entire family.  Each evening, the laptops go home with the students, whose families can accessing training and resources to develop and improve their businesses.  Even in the most remote regions of Afghanistan, students and entrepreneurs are connecting to the world.  

USAID combined these local private and public sector resources as part of an innovative public-private partnership.  This successful venture improves Afghanistan's educational system and rebuilds the country's
human capacity, creating opportunities for much-needed income generating activities.

http://afghanistan.usaid.gov//en/Article.954.aspx

[Christians4LessGvt]

but they're not there to build schools, roads and hospitals either.

Serving Millions with Critical Medicine Delivery
USAID supplies clinics with essential pharmaceuticals for 4.5 million in Afghanistan
Bamyan Province 


A young woman receives treatment at a USAID-funded Basic Health Center in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan.

In Afghanistan, approximately 42% of deaths during childhood result from treatable and often preventable illnesses including respiratory infections and diarrhea. Working with the Afghan Ministry of Health to prevent these unnecessary deaths, USAID provided nearly fifty-four metric tons of pharmaceuticals (119,016 lbs.) for use by nineteen nongovernmental organizations (NGO) in fourteen rural Afghan provinces.

The pharmaceutical supplies were distributed to 250 clinics reaching 4.5 million people. The nineteen NGOs are already recipients of USAID?s Rural Expansion of Afghanistan Community-based Healthcare (REACH) performance-based grants - totaling $52 million - used to deliver health services in rural and underserved areas of Afghanistan.

The NGOs operate USAID-funded clinics that directly provide services to more than 1.1 million women of childbearing age, and over three quarters of a million children under age five. The REACH Program specifically addresses the health of women and children by expanding access to quality basic health services in rural areas, including support for the construction and rehabilitation of clinics.

http://afghanistan.usaid.gov//en/Article.79.aspx

[Christians4LessGvt]

but they're not there to build schools, roads and hospitals either.

New Health Services Partnership Puts Afghans First
The PCH program is expected to be implemented for five years, with a total value of $236 million.
Kabul, Afghanistan  | Monday, November 30, 2009


Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Minister of Public Health Dr. Fatimie and U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry s
hake hands at the launch of the Partnership Contracts for Health Service program.

The Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Finance launched a new Partnership
Contracts for Health Service (PCH) program on November 4 after signing 16 contracts
with 10 NGOs totaling approximately $72 million over two years.  Through these
contracts funded by USAID, the Ministry of Public Health will support
462 health facilities and more than 4,000 health posts in twelve provinces. 
The PCH program is expected to be implemented for five years, with a total value
of $236 million, not including essential medicines that will also be provided by the
U.S. Government.

At the signing, Minister of Public Health Dr. Said Mohammad Amin Fatimie,
Minister of Finance Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, and U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry
spoke of the importance of health services packages to improve the health
of the Afghan people and how the program will improve access to quality
health care, especially for women and children. 

?Today is an important step in improving the lives and the health of the Afghan people,?
said Ambassador Eikenberry. ?Through these host country contracts with the various NGOs,
this program will make available basic health services and hospital services to more than
35 percent of the Afghan population.  We have already seen a significant rise in
accessibility in health services for the population rise from just nine percent in 2001 to
approximately 85 percent today.?  Minister of Finance Dr. Omar Zakhilwal added,
?The Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan by taking this opportunity would like
to make sure that it would do the best to ensure that the funding is executed in the most
effective, transparent and accountable manner.?

http://afghanistan.usaid.gov//en/Article.909.aspx