<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=cbcox@ilstu.edu href="mailto:cbcox@ilstu.edu">Carrol Cox</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:38 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] The hope for an independent free Iraq</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Leigh Meyers wrote:<BR>> <BR>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>> From: Doug Henwood<BR><BR>I completely lost track of what the hell this post was about. Only a<BR>cure for AIDS would be worth the effort it would take to decipher what<BR>Leigh is trying to say - it's impossible to know who is saying what.<BR><BR>Carrol</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>~~</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Carrol, I'm sorry you weren't aware of which part of </DIV> <DIV>the conversation I was represented by here:<BR></DIV> <DIV><...></DIV> <DIV>>>You're implying that people were forced by threat of violence by the<BR>>>"interim government" not only to vote but to vote in a particular way.<BR><BR>YES<BR><BR>>>What evidence have you for the implication? I've seen no credible<BR>>>reporting that alleges this about the election.<BR><BR>The interim government is an American operation and the <BR>threat of violence by the interim government is quite simply: <BR><BR>Vote for one of these people that we've pre-screened, or Iraq will <BR>devolve into a civil war. Furthermore, the full force of the american <BR>people will be applied through the US government and military and <BR>we WILL make that civil war happen unless you, the indigenous Iraqi <BR>people do what we (the puppets) say and vote for someone from a<BR>pool of people we've selected.<BR><...></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>L</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>