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This is a quick post to Kudos to you for your courage! Caption: [An Iraqi woman cries tears of joy after casting her vote outside a polling station in the holy city of Najaf, Jan. 30, 2005. (Faleh Kheiber/Reuters)] |
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This is a quick post to Kudos to you for your courage! Caption: [An Iraqi woman cries tears of joy after casting her vote outside a polling station in the holy city of Najaf, Jan. 30, 2005. (Faleh Kheiber/Reuters)] |
Something to ponder regarding post and pre-elections spin:
From the Wall Street Journal
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Response metalordie? I’d like to see how this debate plays.
Metalordie,
I think you should swallow your pride, stop living in denial and admit that the elections were a success. NO matter how you try to spin the turn out, Iraqis INSIDE Iraq (not the ones observing and analyzing from their air-conditioned offices) proved you wrong. So what if the Sunnis turnout was low, big deal, they are a minority anyway, that were given power by Saddam and his cronies. If you think whoever voted was a collaborator, then over 60% of the Iraqi people are! Live with it!
Metalordie, so what would you prefer happen to the Kurds? If you could create the future of Iraq, what would it look like? What would you do with the Kurds, prancing monkeys and lapdogs?
Why I am not taking part in these phoney elections
by: Houzan Mahmoud:
http://www.equalityiniraq.com/hozan_election.htm
Best Regards.
Loreto.
What do u mean no comment iyas? You quoted me and I would like to know why?
“If stuff like that can happen in America, it can happen in Iraq”
No comment…
Wow! let the real debate begin. Metalordie, you always know how to start a party. but hey bucko, not all of us that posted wanted the election to take place and are skeptical of the process of the election. I mean everyone knows about the stories of dealing with the electronic voting machines with those of the paper ones during the presidential elections in the U.S. Then there was 2000. Dont even get me started. If stuff like that can happen in America, it can happen in Iraq. This election will be take advantage of for sure. But i dont think what you are talking about metalordie will happen. The powers that be wont allow it. We all know who that power belongs to.
To all those who think they have an inkling about Iraqi elections, check this out:
Iraq-vote-Kurds-independence
Kurds polled on independence alongside Iraq election: campaign group
ARBIL, Iraq, Jan 31 (AFP) – An informal referendum on independence for Iraqi Kurdistan was conducted in Kurdish areas alongside the weekend’s historic election, a campaign group said Monday.
“A poll on independence was organised throughout Kurdistan,” Shamal Huaizi of the Referendum Movement for Iraqi Kurdistan told
AFP promising to announce the results in a week.
Huaizi said his association had printed two million forms which were distributed to voters outside polling stations asking: “Do you
want an independent Kurdistan?”
He argued that Iraqi Kurds had a legal basis to break away as Britain had forcibly incorporated the then-Kurdish majority Mosul region into Iraq following its capture from Turkey in World War I.
“Kurdistan was forcefully annexed by Iraq in 1924 and, following the collapse of the Iraqi state, the Kurdish people have the right to be consulted about independence, as was the case following the
fall of the Soviet Union,” he said.
Iraq’s mainstream Kurdish parties have carefully avoided any talk of independence in the foreseeable future, knowing that it would be unacceptable to neighbouring Iran, Syria and Turkey, which all have large Kurdish minorities of their own.
But even their calls for an expanded autonomous region, incorporating the northern oil centre of Kirkuk and parts of two other provinces as well as the existing three, have drawn strong
opposition from Ankara.
SO, all those Iraqi monkeys dancing and prancing in celebration of what the think is a democratic process, congratulations. You just voted away 1/3rd of your country. One-half of its oil wealth. And all of its mineral wealth.
I wonder if any other nation of peoples would be so willing to hold such a vote where they see their country disintegrate.
Talk is cheap. I want to see you all in a year when Iraq is fragmented. Let’s see how much you give a damn then.
At the end we’re going to get a system similar to Lebanon. A Shi’a President, a Sunni Prime minister, and a Kurdish Parliament Leader. Then we’ll need the US to stay and keep these groups from tearing each other up. That’s the best you can hope for in these countries that shouldn’t have been created in the first place.