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"The people of Iraq are free," said President Bush in his State of the Union speech. A few days later, a terrible problem presented itself. It seems that the best-selling popular music in Iraq heralds the resistance and condemns the occupation.

Lew Rockwell goes on to say "The Iraqi people are free so long as they say and do only what the occupation military government tells them to do. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people being detained (the low number claimed by the US, the high number by human rights groups) for engaging in anti-coalition thoughts, words, or deeds. If you think that is striking enough – and what American doesn't shudder at the thought of his own government becoming someone else's despotism? – consider something even more alarming: the US doesn't consider this abnormal.

Listen to these words in defense of military censorship in Iraq: "That is a decree that was modeled after similar policies and similar standards and guidelines in the United States, in the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere." It might be bad enough to hear extraordinary violations of human rights justified on the basis of some trumped up war power. But it is surely the lowest of the low for them to claim that this is perfectly normal, exactly the kind of thing that exists in the US today."

An excellent article. But that's just my opinion.

posted by A Curmudgeon 3:04 PM