Dictator wanted for Iraq

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The US autocrats, President George Bush jr. on top, have been explaining the invasion of Iraq in March 20, 2003 for four years and four months now. They have been explaining it in speeches lacking credible arguments and in made up reports, ceaselessly playing the authors of Iraq's democratization. But the play is very poor and today they can fool just an insignificant number of naives or constants fans of the Texan man in the White House. The US boasted about grabbing Saddam Hussein, the ex Iraqi President, in December 12, 2003, describing the event as the great American victory driving Iraq on the way to democratization. The fuss continued by masquerade trial, with the Baghdad Justice dancing on the Washington tune and it culminated in the hanging of the dictator in December 30, 2006.
In the meantime, the Sunni majority who had helped Saddam Hussein dread the population for almost a quarter of a century started the insurrection against the Shiite majority who had taken over the political arena in Baghdad right after the war. The suicide bombing, the kidnapping (some real, some faked) and the beheading of foreigners and Iraqis suspected of supporting the coalition turned into custom. The number of Iraqi civilians killed on behalf of the democratization will probably remain unknown. Not even an approximate number will be released.
The US military lost 3,670 soldiers by early this week. The Democrats and most Americans have been tenaciously pleading for the withdrawal of soldiers from Iraq as soon as possible, but the US representation in this country is now a record: 162,000 people.
Three days ago the US and the Iraqi forces killed about 30 people in raids on the Shiite district of Sadr City, Baghdad. A communique by the US Army announced the victims were Islamist militants, but it mentioned no word about the difficulty of making a difference between terrorists and civilians when you are on a flying helicopter or about the risks involved in an air raid against a district of civilians.
Claiming the military action was meant to help the Iraqi people and free them from Saddam Hussein's Sunni dictatorship, they started a war actually motivated by oil, fishy business, political propaganda interests and pride. Some of the Americans are not paradoxically concluding that a new dictatorial system would be the only means to settle the continuing crisis in that country. Or at least this is what a lobby group is proposing. The group is led by Michael Oppenheimer, a head of the Global Affairs Center in New York University. His opinion is that dictatorship is right now the likeliest solution to save Iraq, since there is now authoritative, rather 'unconstitutional' person to rule the country. Oppenhaimer's lobbyists aren't only supporting the US public opinion's stronger and stronger appeals that US troops should withdraw, but they also think three more years are needed for settling an 'efficient' dictatorship there. They have even thought that a 'good' dictator should be identified in the first or second level of the Iraqi army.
It is essential that Bush shouldn't appreciate the idea. Or he would arrange some bluff so that the dictator would take over and he has someone to sack in the last year of his mandate, unless he manages to open a small war against Iran or North Korea.

Ileana Cornea
Ziua sambata 11 auguste 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english

Patriarchy addresses CNSAS against Mircea Dinescu

Romanian Patriarchy addressed the CNSAS (National Council for Research on the Communist Secret Service Archive) yesterday against the statements by CNSAS member Mircea Dinescu. The latter claimed His Holiness Antonie Plamadeala, a Securitate (Communist Secret Service) officer during the Communist regime, had asked dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to promote him a general. His Holiness Antonie Streza, a Bishop of Transylvania, denied Mircea Dinescu's information on his predecessor Antonie Plamadeala, also denying the latter had been in connection to the ex Securitate.
Constantin Stoica, a spokesman for the Romanian Patriarchy, announced yesterday that a layman representing the Patriarchy fetched the complaint meant for the CNSAS president Ladislau Csendes. The document is to reach the parliamentary committee coordinating the CNSAS activity most likely next week, Stoica mentioned. (...)
According to the Romanian Patriarchy representatives, Mircea Dinescu's comments are incompatible to his status as member of the CNSAS. (...)
But Mircea Dinescu was relaxed when learning about the complaint against him, claiming he had disobeyed the CNSAS law on the unveiling of information. He mentioned what he had disclosed was not in the CNSAS archive. He commented: "I can't wait for them to complain about me ! They will be surprised to learn that the information I unveiled was not from some CNSAS record, but from a totally different source". He also argued that he had disclosed the respective piece of information because the CNSAS had already announced checks on the records of those representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church to run as candidates for the Patriarch seat.

D.E.
Ziua sambata 11 auguste 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english

Civil society demands sanctions against 1989 manslaughter authors

The leaders of some associations and commissions have demanded Liberal Bogdan Olteanu, speaker for the Chamber of Deputies, to have the lustration law ban access to public ranks to those responsible for the manslaughter in December 1989 and the fratricide in June 1990. They have also asked the MPs investigated for murders should be suspended.
The letter is authored by Sorin Iliescu, leader of the Civic Alliance, Vladimir Tismaneanu, president of the Presidential Commission to Analyze the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, Florin Mihalcea, leader of "Timisoara" Society, Teodor Maries, head of the 21st December, 1989 Association, Antonie Popescu, president of the 1990 Bucharest University Students League and George Costin, head of the 1989 National Revolutionaries Association.
The argument of their claim is that Romania's public life has been "infested" for more than 17 years by those involved in historical murders. (...)
Talks in late August
The speaker for the Chamber of Deputies has invited the authors to talks on the lustration law late this month. Bogdan Olteanu has replied by an open letter too, mentioning he is glad to see civil society's real interest in raising an issue many want to muffle to public attention and debate.
Bogan Olteanu argues in the letter: "The lustration law is one of my political objectives under the present mandate. I believe that, together with the electoral reform, this is one of the most important aspects of the political reform so much talked about lately. This is why I have many a time argued that this draft should yield. But I have also expressed disappointment with the twisting of the lustration law' main meaning as the parliamentary debate has been progressing with it".
The Liberal official expresses opinion that the project is flawed because of personal vendettas hiding behind law articles. (...)

Oana Rotaru
Ziua sambata 11 august 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english