Iraq Regime Extends Emergency Powers: Right to detain w/o warrant, etc.

[bigtree]

Iraq lawmakers extend state of emergency-

"Parliament approved another month's extension of the state of emergency, in place since November 2004. The measure allows for a nighttime curfew and gives the government extra powers to make arrests without warrants and launch police and military operations when it deems them necessary."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

The junta has learned how to perpetuate power through stoking violence and then claiming the need for extra-constitutional powers to put it down. Learning the rudiments of a tyrant's reign from their enabler, Herr Bush. Democracy, autocracy . . . it's all the same to Bush and his protege' Maliki.


Woodward Comes Out From Inside the White House on Iraq (10-2-2006)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2858332#2858350

[LynnTheDem]

1. The same things bush used as excuses to invade & "liberate" Iraq from.

Then again, the same things bush wants legalized for America.

[AzDar]

2. U! S! A! Freedom is on the m....nevermind.

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