JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: WITH ITS ELECTION COLUMNIST SAYS IRAQ IS SHAKING OFF “INTERVENTION” – HIS WORD FOR AN “INVASION” WHICH KILLED A MILLION – COUNTRY IS STILL OCCUPIED AND CIA BUILT ITSELF A FORTRESS

John Chuckman

COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PATRICK COCKBURN IN THE INDEPENDENT

 

“Election success for Muqtada al-Sadr shows Iraqi voters shaking off foreign intervention

“Analysis: Nationalist populist has always rejected any external presence in his country, be it the UK, Iran or the US’

 

Hardly.

The country is still occupied.

And the CIA has built itself a massive fortress-embassy there.

Also, I do object to the Orwellian euphemism, “intervention.” It was an invasion, a massive, totally illegal invasion.

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Response to a comment:

Americans support democracies they like, and they overthrow democracies they don’t like. They’ve done so many times.

The key words for America are not about “democracy,’ they are “we like.”

Dictators, kings, and tyrants are treated in an identical fashion. There are ones “we like” and ones “we don’t like.”