Bill Sykes' Newsletter
from America.
(March 2005)
An ex-Brit gives his views - (without
fear or favor) - of the American Scene
One election does
not a democracy make:
 A dismal turnout of the Iraqi people, (for
obvious reasons), during the 31st of January 2005
election came up with an unverified count of 8.5 million
votes out of the estimated 14.2 million eligible voters,
(59%), giving the Shiite Islamic party more than 47%
of the votes, followed by the Kurdish Alliance with
25%, and the American sponsored Iraqi Interim Government,
under the Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a distant
and dismal third with 14%.
This means of course that
the Shiite party will assume a majority in the new
Iraqi Assembly with 140 seats out of 275. It has been
reported that the outgoing American sponsored Interim
Prime Minister, Ayad Alawi, has been trying to form
a coalition to challenge what is expected to be the
Shiite majority choice of Ibrahim Jaafari for the Premiership,
Also in line, is rogue financier and  supplier
of dangerously false information about weapons of mass
destruction existing in Iraq to a very receptive President
Bush. Of course one must mention that reports indicate
that Ibrahim Jaafari is not exactly as squeaky-clean
as one would wish as he has a dubious background of ties
to Iran and terrorist organizations. There hasn’t
been much jubilation at the White House since the result
of the vote was announced on Sunday the 13th of February
2005 and the Bush Administration has been very quiet
on the subject. Perhaps they envisaged that the Iraqis
would be so pleased to be able to participate in a general
election, and out of gratitude for their so-called freedom
would vote for the American sponsored Interim Government.
Instead it would appear that there is the distinct possibility
that Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, (the Iraqi Shiite religious
leader with definite Iranian connections), will lead
Iraq into a religious Muslim State similar to the one
introduced into Iran by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after
the Shah of Persia was exiled.
 So
much for your ambition Mr. President to force a form
of American democracy on an Islamic country - It would
appear to me that the predicted civil war between the
Kurds, (currently at odds with the Turks), the Sunni,
and the Shiite population, grows ever closer. The results
of America and Great Britain going to war against Iraq,
to over throw a despotic dictator has not turned out
as the American Administration expected with joyous Iraqi
people welcoming the victorious American troops and their
new found freedom by embracing democracy.
America’s
lack of an objective foreign policy, and failure to recognise
and make plans for the aftermath of this war, has created
a total disastrous chaotic scenario of anarchy which
will take many years to unravel in order to bring the
Middle East back to some resemblance of normalcy - whatever
the word normalcy means in that part of the world.
We welcome feedback about any of the contents of these
newsletters. Please send all correspondence to bill_sykes@huddersfield1.co.uk
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