Seymour Hersh: Bush Authorized Covert Plan to Manipulate Iraqi Elections

[cyberpj]

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
Seymour Hersh: Bush Authorized Covert Plan to Manipulate Iraqi Elections

Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports that President Bush authorized covert plans last year to support the election campaigns of Iraqi candidates and political parties with close ties to the White House. Hersh cites unidentified former military and intelligence officials who said the administration went ahead with the plan over congressional opposition.


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/19/1353243

Yesterday's post - w/link to New Yorker article:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4128099

[indepat]

1. Shocking anyone would even suggest the Iraqi elections were manipulated

when all the Administration ever wanted was to bring freedom, liberty, and democracy to the people of Iraq, ridding them of a despotic dictator in the process.

[cyberpj]

4. We know that. But oh so many others don't. And the more

that gets published about election fraud the better - because once people accept it happened there, then maybe we can really open up the can of worms labeled US election fraud, 'eh?

[indepat]

9. You betcha'

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Thanks for posting this.

Things are getting very interesting.

[cyberpj]

5. Like we all said, once you get one crack in the wall things can

really start coming out.

I'm hoping all this stuff will encourage more and more whistleblowers to come forward especially if they don't have Rove and company to worry about.

[mattclearing]

3. Of course, our own elections are beyond reproach. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Same thing they did in Ohio and Florida!

DIEBOLD went to Iraq?

Edit: A good question for congress to ask the White House would be, If you did that in Iraq, did you also do the same thing here?

[spanone]

7. Boy, the shit river runs deep with Bushco.

[Just Me]

8. Election fraud here, election fraud there,...SOP for corrupt TYRANTS!!!

Yup, folks, we have deceptive, manipulative TYRANTS right here in the good ole' USA willing and able to defraud YOU. The BushCO/neoCON tyranny will defraud you out of your vote, defraud you out of you money, defraud you out of your security and defraud you into spilling your blood to profit them.

America has been gagged, bound and locked in the BushCo/neoCON dungeon because our tyrants HATE freedom, HATE democracy, HATE the constitution and, to the extent anyone disagrees with them, they HATE YOU!!!

Welcome to the PNAC for the Divided States.

[sub.theory]

10. *Gasp* Rigged Elections?!

Surely Great Leader would never rig an election. He is spreading freedom and democracy.

Those Iraqis hate us for our freedom.

*head explodes*