An election to anoint an occupation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1402181,00.html
Had it been held in Zimbabwe, the west would have denounced it
Salim Lone
Monday January 31, 2005
The Guardian
Tony Blair and George Bush were quick to characterise yesterday's
election as a triumph of democracy over terror. Bush declared it a
"resounding success", while Blair asserted that "The force of freedom
was felt throughout Iraq". And yet the election fell so completely
short of accepted electoral standards that had it been held in, say,
Zimbabwe or Syria, Britain and America would have been the first to
denounce it.
Salim Lone
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