U.S. propaganda machine beating democracy drum

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Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star

The only thing working very well in Iraq these days is the full-blown American propaganda, namely, that democracy is on a roll there, proving the sagacity of the illegal invasion and colonial occupation, as also the genius of George W. Bush in killing tens of thousands of Iraqis and bombing Iraqi infrastructure to smithereens.

This fiction requires:

The endless repetition of such presidential lies as that Iraq is "a central front in the war on terror."

An amnesia about the stated reasons for the war, primarily, weapons of mass destruction, vouchsafed, it turns out, by a lying drunkard, whose unreliability was conveyed to the CIA by German intelligence.

A belief in the need for imperial presence to teach the natives how to vote, form an assembly and elect an executive.

A willingness to ignore facts.

Two years after the invasion, Iraqis still do not have enough food or drinking water. Children under 5 are under a malnutrition rate that is double what it was during Saddam Hussein's reign, according to the latest United Nations figures.

But Halliburton continues to rake in high profits, even as the Pentagon questions the over-billing by the former employer of Vice-President Dick Cheney.

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