The 'Noble Cause'...Here is why Casey Sheehan had to die.

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Casey Sheehan and over eighteen hundred other Americans have died--according to Mr Bush-- for the 'Noble Cause" of creating a new, free Iraq. However, in dealing with the Bush Administration's NeoCon ideologues it is absolutely necessary to LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN IRAQ...NOT WHAT THEY SAY THEY ARE DOING IN IRAQ.

For those of us in the 'reality based community', here is a minute sampling of some of the laws being imposed on the Iraqi people by Bush, Paul Bremer and the American occupiers:

BREMER'S PUBLIC ORDER # 1:

Once the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA) took power in Baghdad in March of 2003, it began enforcing a 1987 law
banning unions in public enterprises, where most Iraqis are employed. On top of
this, CPA head Paul Bremer added Public Order #1, banning pronouncements that
incite civil disorder, rioting, or damage to property. The phrase civil
disorder can easily apply to organizing strikes, and leaders of both the Iraqi
Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) and Iraqs Union of the Unemployed have been
detained a number of times.
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Much of the CPA's effort in Baghdad was devoted to helping create a conservative's ideal state, complete with a 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income. Bremer's crew was so zealous that they tried, in September 2003, to privatize virtually the whole economy—200 state-owned firms. Legalizing labor unions would not have been helpful, to say the least, to these privatization plans. As Bjorn Brandtzaeg, a former CPA team leader for trade and industry, wrote in the Financial Times, “Instead of focusing on restarting the main industrial complexes as soon as possible after the end of hostilities, a team of ideologically motivated CPA officials with close ties to the US administration pursued a narrow privatization strategy.

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The U.S. government further signaled its attitude towards Iraqi labor unions in early December 2003 when coalition troops stormed the IFTU headquarters in Baghdad, ransacked their offices, arrested eight union workers, and shut down the office. Within a day, the arrested were released uncharged from Al Muthan airbase, but IFTU headquarters remained shut for seven months. The jailed men accused the United States of relying on information provided by a member of Saddam's old regime, Abdullah Murad Ghny, who owns a major private transport company whose workers had begun to organize.
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0504.harwood.html

http://www.billybragg.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=1557

BREMER'S PUBLIC ORDER # 81:

Buried deep among the Bremer laws was Order 81, ‘Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety Law’.

At the heart of Order 81 was the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) provision. Order 81, states: ‘Farmers shall be prohibited from re-using seeds of protected varieties or any variety mentioned in items 1 and 2 of paragraph (C) of Article 14 of this Chapter.’

In plain English, this gives holders of patents on certain plant varieties, i.e. large foreign multinationals, absolute rights for 20 years over use of their seeds in Iraqi agriculture. The protected plant varieties are Genetically Modified or Gene Manipulated (GM) plants, and an Iraqi farmer who chose to plant such seeds must sign an agreement with the seed company holding the patent that he would pay a ‘technology fee’ and an annual license fee for planting the patented seeds.

Any Iraqi farmer seeking to take a portion of those patented seeds to replant in following harvest years would be subject to heavy fines from the seed supplier. Iraqi farmers would become vassals, not of Saddam Hussein, but of multinational GM seed giants.
Iraqi seed treasure destroyed.
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http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/58773

BREMMER'S PUBLIC ORDER # 39:

Order No. 39 allows for: (1) privatization of Iraq's 200 state-owned enterprises; (2) 100% foreign ownership of Iraqi businesses; (3) 'national treatment' - which means no preferences for local over foreign businesses; (4) unrestricted, tax-free remittance of all profits and other funds; and (5) 40-year ownership licenses", wrote Antonia Juhasz, a project director at the International Forum on Globalization in San Francisco (LATimes, August 05, 2004).

Antonia Juhasz added; "Orders No. 57 and No. 77 ensure the implementation of the orders by placing U.S.-appointed auditors and inspector generals in every government ministry, with five-year terms and with sweeping authority over contracts, programs, employees and regulations". "Order No. 17 grants foreign contractors, including private security firms, full immunity from Iraq's laws. Even if they, say, kill someone or cause an environmental disaster, the injured party cannot turn to the Iraqi legal system. Rather, the charges must be brought to U.S. courts". <snip>

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/HAS504A.html

Once, again, this is a mere sampling of just a few of the laws which represent the NeoCon vision of the new, free Iraq; the Iraq for which Casey Sheehan and 1800 other heros have given their lives.

Cindy...this is why the President refuses to meet with you.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Hey... .as a relative of mine said..... "The Marshall Plan worked

just fine for Japan and Europe." Is he right? Is there a difference between what happened with the Marshall Plan and the financial and economic rape we are seeing with Bremer's "rules" and what the Marshall Plan did for Europe and Japan?? I really find it hard to believe that there is any resemblance between the two.