js7a's Journal: Freedom Died

An agreement was reached that Islam is the religion of state, and that no law shall be enacted that contradicts the agreed-upon essential verities of Islam. Likewise, the inviolability of the highest [Shiite] religious authorities in the land is safeguarded, without any allusion to a detailed description.... A Higher Council will be formed to review new legislation to ensure it does not contravene the essential verities of the Islamic religion.

-- London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat

Sorry about that, girls. As Digby said:

And what say you Hitchens, you useful fucking idiot? Americans just "freed" the Iraqis so they could live under Islamic law. That's quite a goddamned achievement. You must be so proud.

How about you Condi? Are you proud of what you've done? You just "freed" 13 million women into second class citizenship -- probably into hell. Tough luck ladies. Don't worry, though, your granddaughters might get their rights back in their lifetimes. You can't stop progress, you know.

And what about you, George you misbegotten cretin. Is this what you were talking about in all these windy speeches about freedom being the gift of the almighty and all that other flatulent twaddle you peddle to the silly rubes who confuse leadership with frat boy swagger? Did you free the Iraqis so they could live under Ayatollahs?

Iraqi women's lives have already become demonstrably less free. This will codify it. And tough shit if you're gay or secular or different in any way. Some fucking freedom.

I hope that everyone makes it their business to remind every Republican asshole they know that it wasn't the liberals who turned Iraq into a theocracy. This is happening on their watch, under their auspices. We don't believe in theocracy. They do. They do not believe in freedom. We do.

(They do believe in two primary freedoms: The freedom of their cronies in or invested in the military-industrial complex to profiteer at the expense of everyone else, and the freedom to tell as many unaccountable lies about it as they wish.)

told ya so

[bechthros]

this is exactly what I was afraid was going to happen. I asked, over and over again, when we first invaded Iraq - if we give these people democracy, aren't they just going to use their newfound freedom to elect theocratic leaders?

Apparanetly nobody in Washington was listening.

BTW, the other thing I'm very afraid is going to happen is an inevitable 3-way civil war. And I wouldn't put my money on the Kurds if I was you.

There had better be hell to fucking pay in the 06 elections.

Kurds

[Safety Cap]

If, *cough* when, the three-way gang-bang begins, just watch Turkey. They have a very large Kurdish area, and are deathly afraid that their Kurds will want to join the Iraqi kurds in creating a new Kurdistan.

If that happens, then Turkey will be forced to start fighting, too. And then Syria, Pakistan, Iran, (probably a bit of Israel) and the rest will be drawn into the greast cluster-fark the world has ever seen.

And we can thank the ReTHUGlicans for it all. Oh, and double-plus good for boosting shareholde

absolutely despicable

[NeMon'ess]

At least Iraq has turned into such an embarassment that we won't fuck up Iran (publicly anyway) any more than it already is.

No problem

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

For this crew - it's what they want at home for Americans, too.

The master plan is to have Americans ignorant and destitute within 2 generations. The bankers have decreed it. Debt and theocracy are the means to acheive it.

Trust me on this one.

Surprised?

[Concern]

They want a theocracy in the USA. Why should they mind having one in Iraq? Ideally it would be Christian, but when it comes to oil they're nothing if not pragmatic.

If we look with particularly clear eyes at the neoconservatives and the aristocrats behind them, we can see that they prefer monarchies, dictatorships and theocracies, especially in places of strategic and economic importance, because they are comparatively more stable. As the winds of change blow, a democracy that is friendly one day, may the ne