I’ll ask again. Is there anything that you find favourable about Iraq in general, the fact they risk their lives to vote mean anything to you? Or do you just want Iraq to fail to prove Bush wrong.
You can explain away her disillusionment, then, if Ahmed Chalabi becomes part of the new government, even though hardly anyone thought they were voting for him.
From last night’s Hardball, NY Times Administration scribe Judith Miller:
So, who’s really running things?
I thing the “danger” for these folks is being greatly exaggerated. I don’t believe for a second that they’re “risking their lives to vote.” That angle is all just over-cooked hype from the kool-aid saturated US media. If these people really thought there were in danger they wouldn’t be out there. No courage is involved, we’re just being sold a “story” to make this charade seem more legitimate and populist than it actually is.
High Cheese, we’ve already had one major incident on this board where a poster claimed definitive but secret information concerning Iraq. I know him, and he actually does work in USAF intel.
But in the run-up to the war, he told us repeatedly, on the basis of the intel that he was privy to, that after the invasion, it would be clear as day that Saddam had had WMDs. Needless to say, this turned out not to be the case.
So I need a cite, not a reference to intel that you’ve seen but the world hasn’t.
As I recall, that guy has never returned to the board since then either, and he was awfully arrogant and jerkish in his predictions.
Pretty presumptuous of you — especially coming from a guy who has, in all probablity, braved little more than a bad rain on voting day.
And you guys can’t figure why you lost the US election? Shees -
I’m proud that I voted against the “winner” of the 2004 “election.”
You lost too, difference is, we know what we lost, and you don’t.
The gov’t of Iraq right now is appointed, to be replaced once this newly elected assembly drafts a constitution. No direct (‘federal’) elections yet. Elections were part of the US plan all along, contrary to what you were claiming.
So now you’re claiming the votes for the US election were dubious. Your credibility now goes down the toilet…
40 people died getting suicide bombed, plus security measures tight enough to hold back alot of what the terrorists use, Car bombs.
When you live in a state where there is constant danger, what difference would it be when you go to vote? You could easily get killed by an RPG the next day.
What credibility?
Exactlly. This is just a normal day to them. If anything it’s probably a little safer than anything.
Don’t you get it, the biggest terrorist in Iraq promised a bloodbath against Iraqi voters, the stakes were very high on the level of turnout, the fact that 8million people came out to choose their voice is very impressive indeed.
Perhaps more to the point, whose toilet?
Media hype.
Which, the ‘promised bloodbath’ or the 8 million turnout?
Well, I heard that Minnesota winters can cast gloom over the brightest of spirits, but this one must be a real bitch. And when it’s finally over, mosquitoes come…
Yes, its terrible. Awful, awful cold and gloomy. Stay away. Don’t move here. Especially if you’re from, like, California or New York, one of those. You’d hate it, too cold. Witty, long-legged Nordic beauties who use $5 worth of makeup per year…very overated. Stay away, you’d hate it. Iowa. Iowa is nice.
Both, probably.