International Republican Institute Taja Anwar Jadi Perdana Menteri?

Apa itu International Republican Institute?
IRI atau International Republican Institute adalah ‘nonprofit organization’, kerajaan Amerika. Peranan IRI diperjelas dalam ucapan Bush yang dipetik:

"I appreciate the work IRI is doing to advance the cause of liberty. For more than two decades, IRI has been at the forefront of democratic change in more than a hundred countries. You’ve trained the next generation of leaders, you’ve strengthened political parties, you’ve monitored elections, and you’re helping to build civil societies.”

“If the Middle East remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation and resentment and violence ready for export. The United States has adopted a new policy, a forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East; a strategy that recognizes the best way to defeat the ideology that uses terror as a weapon is to spread freedom and democracy.”

 – Panelists, current and former members of NED’s Board of Directors, as well as representatives of NED’s core institutes and the Library of Congress pose for an official picture marking the donation of its founding papers by NED to the Library. L to R: Panelist Anwar Ibrahim, former NED Vice Chairman Tom Donahue, NED board member Judy Shelton, former NED Chairman and US Senator Bill Brock, IRI President Lorne Craner, panelist Zainab Bangura, NED Treasurer Robert Miller, NED Secretary and panelist Jean Bethke Elshtain, Solidarity Center Executive Director Ellie Larson, John Earl Haynes of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, NED President Carl Gershman, NED board member Howard Wolpe, Former Senate Majority Leader and NDI board member Tom Daschle, US Representative and NED board member Gregory Meeks, NDI President Ken Wollack, CIPE Executive Director John Sullivan, US Representative and former NED board member Donald Payne.- photo Source HERE

Di mana selain daripada peperangan, penyusupan masuk dan penajaan ahli / parti politik tertentu juga digunakan oleh Amerika di dalam menyebarkan "Demokrasi Terpimpin" mereka kepada negara luar. Dengan ini, empayar kuasa politik mereka akan semakin kuat dan kukuh dengan menguasai pemimpin negara lain di bawah telunjuk mereka. Sebagai contoh terkini kita boleh lihat dengan apa yang berlaku di Iraq dan Afghanistan yang mana kini pemimpinnya menjadi boneka Kekuasaan Amerika Syarikat.

Menurut Ronald Reagan, kaedah lama Amerika ‘menawan’ dunia sebelum ini menggunakan Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) dan United States Agency for International Development (USAID) dianggap sudah ketinggalan zaman kerana kedua-dua agensi itu sudah dicop berwajah ‘hitam’. Jadi menurut Reagan, Amerika perlu memikirkan satu kaedah baru yang berwajah ‘putih’ bertemakan ‘demokrasi’ yang akhirnya diterjemahkan dengan penubuhan dua badan penyumbang dana demokrasi iaitu NED dan IRI pada tahun 1983. Maka NED adalah badan induk ‘demokrasi’, manakala IRI pula cabang NED yang berfungsi khusus dalam pilihanraya. Menurut Right Web NED, selain IRI terdapat tiga lagi badan yang bergerak yang turut membantu NED menyemai ‘demokrasi’ iaitu NDI (the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs), ACILS (the American Center for International Labor Solidarity) dan CIPE (the Center for International Private Enterprise).

Bagaimanakah Hubungan IRI Dengan Anwar?

Pada 7 April 2006, Anwar dalam wawancara dengan Julia Kirby, Research Assistant, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, di Washington memuji langkah IRI, NED, USAID, NDI sebagai usaha menyemai demokrasi di Asia Tenggara, walaupun menghadapi kesulitan.Kata Anwar,  

“I know of organizations being harassed, and people are worried that they are identified as a threat simply because of their religious beliefs or cultural background. The government can work to moderate and build trust with the people. I have cited organizations, such as USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Peace Corps and various other think tanks that take the more liberal, open view without compromising the fundamentals. You see, there is always this difficulty that one small incident will dismantle the entire fabric of our agreement, and this is really difficult for us to accept”

Kenyataan Anwar ini mengesahkan peranan agensi-agensi Amerika itu memainkan peranannya di negara-negara Asia Tenggara. Sila klik SINI untuk wawancara penuh.

Seperti yang dilaporkan di dalam Suara Keadilan terbitan 28 November – 12 Disember 2006 mengatakan pemimpin-pemimpin PKR menghadiri kursus menghadapi pilihanraya umum yang dianjurkan oleh NDI ( National Democratic Institute) yang mana adalah salah satu cabang IRI

Ini lebih menyakinkan lagi apabila IRI mengeluarkan kenyataan sokongan kepada Anwar apabila Anwar telah dikaitkan Dengan kes Liwat pada tahun 2008 (rujuk di SINI & SINI).

Ulasan ini adalah dirujuk daripada MINDAAIDC