[news] Canada to lead chorus of support for sham election

[Resist!ca]

"At the behest of the federal Liberal government, Canada's election commission has created and now leads an International Mission for Iraqi Elections (IMIE). The IMIE's ostensible purpose is to determine whether the January 30 vote for a 275-member provisional Iraqi National Assembly and subsequent votes to ratify a new constitution and elect a fresh National Assembly before the year's end are free and fair. But the IMIE's real mandate--as the mission's origins, composition, and conduct demonstrate--is to drum up international support for the sham elections the US is staging in Iraq so as to lend legitimacy to the continuing military occupation of the oil-rich country."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/21/52946/7570