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..this is signed by Ken...

http://www.aina.org/news/20050628125921.htm

TOKYO (UPI) -- A team of Iraqi parliamentarians let by Yonadam Kanna, chair of the Reconstruction and Public Services Committee of the Iraqi National Assembly, have just completed a visit to Japan.

In meetings, unprecedented for a parliamentary delegation, the team met with the Japanese prime minister, foreign minister, key members of Parliament and business leaders.

...no one reading this has any way of knowing the truth of it..and that it comes from an approved liar doesn't strengthen the case...how would anyone know what is "unprecedented" for Japan? But it sounds good and Ken is all about what SOUNDS good.

"We are very encouraged and hopeful that Japan's pledge of $5 billion for Iraq will make a critical difference in moving our nation forward," said Kanna.

...as you were that a war would move you all somewhere. It's moved thousands of people OUT.

"The real problem is an urgent need for implementation and verification of reconstruction in the country," he continued.

"We have many projects, for example in my constituency, which as an Assyrian Christian in the Nineveh Plain and Northern part of Iraq. In historic Assyria, massive amounts of funds have been allocated, but our people still live like in the Middle Ages, without water, roads, electricity and telephone service."

...Like I said...it is just as likely that Ken put all these words in Kanna's mouth. The only truthful thing is that Kanna is an engineer and why shouldn't he skim something too? It isn't only the Christians who need aid and who live in the Dark Ages.

"Reconstruction aid is allocated for our areas, but unfortunately local Government is not functioning in many areas. And with the security situation as it is, little if any help is reaching our Assyrian Christian villages," said Kanna.

...gee, I wonder why government isn't functioning.

Reflecting a view that the real reconstruction problem in Iraq is a lack of verification on the ground and implementation of projects, the five day visit of the Iraqi MPs renewed a historic Iraq-Japan relationship that dates back to the days of the Silk Road when much of the culture of the Middle East flowed to China and Japan.

...none of the culture of the MidEast, by which you mean Christians, flowed to China and Japan..you mean the barefoot monks who ran there and built a rock. It's odd that with no Muslims to murder you all, you managed nothing of significance..but where Muslims slaughtered you all, there are churches dating from every century.

More recently, major Japanese corporations operated in Iraq working with the oil industry until it all ended with the previous Gulf War.

...and there you have the reason Japan wanted to "help bring democracy to Iraq". All the warring countries have been promised sweet deals for joining in this illegal war...just as they wanted from the First World War.

"We are committed to ensuring Japan's aid is used in the most fair and comprehensive way and are doing all we can to make sure it can be verified on the ground," said Tsukasa Uemura, former Japanese charge de affairs in Baghdad and now head of the Economic Assistance Bureau in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

..you can rape someone..and then make sure they get "proper" medical treatment and good infant care...nice people.

Japan's $5 billion pledge for Iraqi reconstruction is second only to the United States and the European Union.

..and it is nothing compared to what you all STOLE from the country. Iraq never needed your aid..you needed IT'S aid before this war. You can knock a man's teeth out and then "help with dentures". You really expect to be thanked for this crime?

While great concern has been expressed about the upcoming writing of the Iraqi constitution and in particular Article 7 which reads: "Islam is the official religion of the State," Kanna is also one of the only non-Muslim members of the Constitutional Committee.

..no concern has been expressed by Iraqis...just by the Christians outside of Iraq. Islam is as official in Iraq as Christianity is in America, as Judaism is in Israel. You brag about your Judeo-Christian Law...why can't Iraq be ruled by it's own Judeo-Islamic Law?

"The Constitution is being written much in the spirit of the current Transitional Administrative Law. I am confident that we will be able to achieve a secular, open and democratic Constitution that will be fair to all Iraqis. Further, I believe that this is what all Iraqis want," he said.

..that was the case before. This time, however, the Shiia have been allowed to become the dominant voting bloc...good going.

A telling sign of whether Kanna's views will hold are the current realities in the Middle East, which has seen the non-Muslim population of the area go from nearly 20 percent to now under 2 percent as the radicalization of previously tolerant Muslim regimes have caused massive emigration of non-Muslims.

..Muslims didn't chase them out, they even withstood years of Christian attacks and bombs and starvation...only the arrival of Christians in their country sent them running...you drove tham out, not Islam.

Estimates of as much as 100,000 non-Muslims leaving Iraq, most of them Assyrian Christians who are the indigenous people of the country are worrying many analysts.

...no one is worried. There are over 34 million refugees world-wide...no one is worried about them either. You are not the indigenous people...all Iraqis are indigenous.

The Japanese government, which has a strong, secular Constitution written by the United States nearly 60 years ago when it too was defeated and then occupied by U.S. forces, many believe, can be a balancing influence in Iraq gently nudging for a similar situation in Iraq.

...when the day comes that evangelicals like you are the dominant voting bloc...you don't think you'll vote YOUR religion into Law?

Kanna believes the Iraqi people and government are committed to democracy, the rule of law and a secular constitution. The facts on the ground where aid is routinely, according to a recent EU document, not provided to non-Muslims and a de-facto "ethnic cleansing" would seem to indicate otherwise.

..there is no ethnic cleansing except what you Christians brought on all the people...YOU have cleansed Iraq of even more Christians and good riddance too.

...Democracy means majority rule...I don't recall any special protection for minorities in the United States...yet you expect Iraq to have them..and for the very religion that ATTACKED them?

What is not in doubt is that the future of Iraq rests, not in the hands of the Iraqis themselves, but in the international community.

..oh really? This international community is having a hard time leaving its compound and their plan for an army of collaborators to do their dirty work for them isn't faring too well...I wouldn't get too exicted about the prospects of you murderous dingbats to control Iraq's destiny....you can throw them into turmoil and grief by attacking them with your superior weapons and killing their children...but all you'll win is a special place in hell.

In particular the major donors the United States, the EU and Japan and their ability to leverage their support for fair and verifiable reconstruction and a secular constitution that eliminates the much reviled Article 7, which states that "Islam is the Official Religion of the State."

..that article is reviled by you...who would prefer to see Christianity as the official religion.

Many ask a very simple, but telling question. "Was a war fought to depose Saddam Hussein only to create The Islamic republic of Iraq against the clear wishes of the people and a constitution that states that Islam is the official religion of the state?"

... the war was indeed against the wishes of the people..so was the toppling of their government and attack on their homes...the people of Iraq have no qualms about an Islamic Republic, which is also what the United States wants, for all your breathlessness.

..you want Muslims to leave OUT any refernce to their dominant religion? Why, when all over America you want your crosses shoved in our faces?

The sign of whether Iraq will succeed or not can be measured very clearly on two fronts. First, whether the Assyrian Christians, the "Canary in the Mine" of Iraq will remain and whether an Iraqi constitution can be produced, as recommended by the previous Constitutional Committee that includes no references to religion or ideology.

...people are free in a democracy to leave the country...the majority is within its legal rights to pass any laws it cares to...how a minority EVER became the litmus test for the validity of a democracy is a mystery...would you want American democracy judged by the treatment minorities here have recived and still receive?

By Ken Joseph, Jr.

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