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Iraqi democracy? I don't fucking think so!
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:35 pm
by Nightshade
http://antiwar.com/justin/
Raimondo's take on the draft of the pending Iraqi constitution. There'll be oppression and Muslim fundametalism for all! Especially the bitches!
Found this hilarious link in there as well:
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives ... on-terror/
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:36 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
well duh it was never about democracy, it's about oil and war profiteering
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:45 pm
by Nightshade
Did you read the column? It's fucking nauseating.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:13 pm
by Dave
lol... don't look at us, we didn't write it :icon19:
edit: fuck :icon32:
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:20 pm
by Cool Blue
Wow, Iraqi's are pretty racist.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:36 pm
by Dave
They'd be better off if they just used our constitution and crossed out United States and put Iraq... Maybe take out the separation of mosque and state part. Either that or just not have one.
Maybe it translates better into Arabic (laff)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:42 pm
by Survivor
Love this one
"There is no censorship on newspapers, printing, publishing, advertising, or media except by law."
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:15 pm
by dmmh
afghanistan all over, just as was to be expected. when will these cunts learn? (yes, Im referring to the US government
)
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:17 pm
by Canis
Cool Blue wrote:Wow, Iraqi's are pretty racist.
No way...you just have to be a conservative muslim...
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:20 pm
by 7zark7
Isn't that the next Guns and roses album title?
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:18 am
by seremtan
hm, not the finest constitution in the world but raimondo's take is heavily filtered by his heavy rothbardian 'libertarianism' (the scare quotes because only americans think privatising everything in sight is conducive to liberty), so even the free healthcare has him in a kind of hayekian snit about it leading to fascism.
rothbard had some great ideas, and i agree totally with his anti-war stance (in fact it was his 'libertarian manifesto' that converted me to a basically anti-war position), but in amongst the good stuff is lot of utter ideologically fundamentalist piffle. raimondo tends to echo a lot of that unfortunately.
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:20 am
by Nightshade
Rothbard, you say? I'll have to investigate.
The free healthcare bit actually had him ranting about socialism at American taxpayer expense. That constitution sounds near-medieval to me. Glad I'm not a woman in Iraq, or ANYONE in Iraq for that matter.
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:40 am
by seremtan
of course, you don't hear a word about how saudi arabia's oil wealth allows it provide free healthcare for its citizens without any income tax at all.
'socialism' is just a label anyway, shorthand for 'a bunch of ideas i don't like but would find difficult to destroy with argument' (difficult because opinion polls in the US suggest a majority are quite keen on 'socialism', i.e. euro-style public healthcare and so on - hardly surprising given that US citizens pay more per capita for healthcare than anyone else on earth yet have the most inefficient healthcare in the western world with the least coverage)