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Apr. 6th, 2005
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Irony supplement for the day...
Apr. 6th, 2005 04:49 pmCNN has an article up here that talks about the Iraqi transitional assembly electing Jalal Talabani to be the president. Part of the article discusses how Saddam Hussein and 11 other "high-value detainees" were allowed to watch the footage as well, and there is a comment in the article by Bakhtiar Amin (interim minister of human rights):
"[The former officials] have seen an election, and the parliament elected a president, and it's not like before where the transfer of power was done through the shedding of blood, military coups and invasions," [Amin] said.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there's a pretty short chain of causality from the 2003 invasion of Iraq to this transfer of power...
"[The former officials] have seen an election, and the parliament elected a president, and it's not like before where the transfer of power was done through the shedding of blood, military coups and invasions," [Amin] said.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there's a pretty short chain of causality from the 2003 invasion of Iraq to this transfer of power...
