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Monday, August 22, 2005 |
Direland: "If the Bush administration brokered a deal in Occupied Iraq to enshrine Islamic law as the guiding principle of the new Iraqi Constitution, you'd think it would be headline news in the U.S. media, wouldn't you? Well, that's what has happened - yet you can search the Sunday papers in vain to find this sell-out to the Islamists clearly portrayed - or, in some cases, even mentioned.
In a dispatch that Reuters moved at 1:33 P.M. on Saturday (August 20), the headline reads, 'U.S. concedes ground to Islamists on Iraqi law'. 'U.S. diplomats have conceded ground to Islamists on the role of religion in Iraq, negotiators said on Saturday as they raced to meet a 48-hour deadline to draft a constitution under intense U.S. pressure,' Reuters reported. 'Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish negotiators all said there was accord on a bigger role for Islamic law than Iraq had before.'"
George Bush has manoeuvred himself in a position he never thought he would end up in, restoring a fundamentalist Iraq.
NYTimes: "The Bush administration has announced plans for a Freedom Walk on Sept. 11, which will start at the Pentagon and end at the National Mall, and include a country music concert. The event is an ill-considered attempt to link the Iraq war to the terrorist attacks of 2001, and misguided in almost every conceivable way. It also badly misreads the public's mood. The American people are becoming increasingly skeptical about the war. They want answers to hard questions, not pageantry."
I advise all Americans for peace to participate in that Walk and make it their own. Hijack it.
In the meantime the Women for Peace hold down the fort at Camp Casey.
1:05:45 PM 
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