Insurgent Attacks in Iraq Leave 33 Dead

[leftchick]

Insurgent Attacks in Iraq Leave 33 Dead

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050308/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi insurgents set off bombs and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at military convoys, checkpoints and police patrols in a spate of violence Monday that killed 33 people and wounded dozens.


As the attacks persisted, so did negotiations to form Iraq's first democratically elected government. Iraqi Kurds said they were close to a deal with the Shiite clergy-backed United Iraqi Alliance to secure many of their territorial demands and ensure the country's secular character after its National Assembly convenes March 16.


The dominant Shiite Muslim alliance, however, said although it agreed that Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani would become Iraq's president, it was still talking about other conditions set by the Kurds for their support in the 275-member legislative body.


The Shiite alliance controls 140 seats and need the 75 seats won by the Kurds in the Jan. 30 elections to muster the necessary two-thirds majority to elect a president and later seat their choice for prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

[merwin]

1. Freedom is on the march...

[ClintonTyree]

2. I read these stories on Yahoo................

and see that they've all been rated 2.33, 2.44...low ratings anyway. Do the freeps sit up all night waiting for stories that may make the bush administration look bad and immediately vote them down? Seriously, check it out sometime. EVERY story that might possibly shed some light on Iraq's situation, every story that does not laud the illegal usurper, is immediately pounced upon by legions of freeps to keep it out of the public eye.
God forbid people should know the TRUTH! What mindless cretins they are.

[Lerkfish]

3. More to the point, should truth be ordered by popular vote?

I object, in total, to yahoo's method of allowing news items to be freeped or even DU'd.
If its a news story, its important whether enough activists for either side vote it thus or not.

It bothers me on many levels, but mostly because it perpetuates the suppression of information by those already drinking the koolaid...or, to put it another way: just because THEY don't want to hear about it should not be valid justification for making it more difficult for others to find.