Iraqi Election Results May Shock the Bushies

[bmichaelh]

The Iraqi election results may not be to Bush's liking.

Their errand boy Allawi is showing poorly against Sistani's coalition.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL

[GetTheRightVote]

1. Strange things are happening.

:kick:

[AuntiBush]

2. Heard about this earlier...

I tell ya... this Hill Gang is enough to make someone start :beer: heavily.

[no_vote_no_count]

3. Helllooooooo

Uh, why would Bush care? BushCo ran this election right? So when the votes are all counted, no matter who was winning all along, Bush's guy will still end up the winner, right? Duh.

[rzemanfl]

10. Exactly, right after the "election" there was this strange article

from AP that said because of the way the election was set up, the last 10% of the votes counted was as important as the first 10%. My first thought was, "duh!" my second was, "Oh-Oh, they're going to rig it at the end." Since they had no idea of what the vote will be they couldn't rig it before hand like they did here.

[Hatalles]

4. This is good news for the Iraqi people.

No wonder they showed up in such large numbers, eh? They hurried to the polls to vote AGAINST the US-backed white-washed puppet and went with the Sistani group.

Sistani seems to have been one of the few voices of reason in Iraq since the war began. I believe a vote for him is a vote in the right direction. The Iraqi's are truly taking back control of their country now and giving the Bush Administration the finger (not the ink-soaked one) at the same time.

Hats off to the Iraqi's. The media spin should come crashing down on Bush now. Here's hoping at least.

[WyLoochka]

5. Sistani out-maneuvered BushCo

An Iranian friendly, fundamentalist clerical regime is not good news. This is why BushCo did not want elections. BushCo, always scoffing at reality, arrogantly thought they could get away with not having any elections, while at the same time spewing their lies that it was all about "freedom, liberty and values." It was Sistani who took advantage of their ludicrous position, pushed for elections - knowing he'd prevail - and got his way.

Thanks BushCo - you incompetent maniacs. Just what the world needed, yet another fundamentalist country.

Meanwhile, Mullah Dobson is trying to mount the political pressure here so the US will, at long last, capitulate, go off the cliff and become yet another fundamentalist country run by "clerics."

We're going to take our country back so "we won't have to listen to those fundamentalist preachers anymore." Howard Dean. We've got a really tough job ahead of us, but damn we are going to do this. We have to.

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[Hatalles]

7. Since when did Sistani become a fundamentalist?

[cornermouse]

8. Agree. Its not good news.

Another Islamic country.

Women are being assassinated if they work or are educated and a lot of people are not sending their kids to school any more. Its no longer safe to wear western clothes, which Iraqi women did before we "freed" them. Its too dangerous.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

6. "Mission Accomplished"?

Isn't this what happened in South Vietnam? Successful "elections" that lead to the TET Offensive 4 months later?

"Monkey boy" George E. Newman and the NeoZombies strike again.

[Disturbed]

9. al Sistani is not a fundamentalist!

I feel that if this will indeed be the ouitcome that it is step in the best direction for the Iraqis. Perhaps they will form a Brit style govt. and democracy and power share with the Sunnis and Kurds, many of whom are Sunnis btw.