Bush's Phony Committment to "Democracy"

Secret aid studied in Iraq voting - Americas - International Herald Tribune

Seymour Hersh has written an investigative report to be published in this week's New Yorker about the Bush administration and the January 2005 elections in Iraq. In it, he claims that the administration had a plan to provide covert support to Iraqi candidates of its choosing, despite the President's after-the-fact claims that the purpose of the US invasion of Iraq was to "promote Democracy."

The administration initially carried out the secret plan over the objections of Congress. But it was Congressional leaders, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Cal.) who is reported to have had serious "words" with Condoleeza Rice over the matter, who exerted enough pressure to scotch the plan.

I suggest to the reader that this administration has no interest whatsoever in the spread of "Democracy" in the world. Such a proposition runs counter to the interests of the Project for a New American Century, and to the interests of global capitalism generally. Again, the US (or at least the neo-con Republican vision of the US) seems interested only in creating global circumstances which protect vital US interests--whether those interests are oil, cheap labor, cheap resources, open markets, or the protection of US military prominence.

What liars they all are.