So if the elections "go well" will bush ever shut up?

[southernleftylady]

they only had 8 suicide bombers..
not that i want it to go bad but.. if it does go good.. bush will never shut uh..

[illflem]

1. He wouldn't shut up even if it went bad

[southernleftylady]

3. got a point nt

[pippin]

2. What "Going Well" Means

[rodeodance]

4. msnbc says prob. either Bush or Condi or WH will speak after church

services.

[Last Lemming]

5. You shouldn't go there

You've got to get a larger perspective on this or else you will find yourself a moral bankrupt (well, maybe not bankrupt but maybe spendthrift)

You don't want these election to go south just to frustrate Bush You don't wish misery and failure on the Iraq's as punishment for your political adversary--I'm sure you don't

Kids and old men at the polling place, holiday atmosphere--no country deserves that more than Iraq and no country has suffered as much to get there But the problem is that this day is--most likely--illusory The election there is no more free than our elections here--What's more espite the fact that 95% of Iraqis want us to leave (now that's a mandate) we ain't going anywhere. I personally feel that the day will be high profile and give the administration some cover for awhile--but nothing of substance is happening in Iraq today and that is a terrible thing

May God (or the Unitarian equivalent) grant the Iraqi some small measure of peace.

[zanana]

6. the "Unitarian equivalent" of God?

What in the world do you mean by that? Who do you think Unitarians worship?

[blueknight]

7. if they went ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE,

bush and his thugs would say it went well

[Last Lemming]

8. According to the old joke

which I first heard from my father (who gave me a strict Unitarian upbringing) Unitarians believe in one God--at the very most

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. I think a lot of stuff

is going to explode over the next few days before the SOTU.

There are too many troops on the street right now. Everyone is under curfew. I am sure in some places the troops are rounding up the 'voters' and taking them to vote. I can imagine the choice, vote or go to Abu Ghraib.

However, after the 'celebration' phase and the troops going back to their fortified barracks, then Iraq will go back to normal, with car bombs, suicide bombers, rocket attacks...

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[Sparkly]

11. Why should "they" be proud of the Iraqi people?

But I agree we'll never hear the end of it, since the election is the latest excuse for invading. A billion dollars a week? Yeah but they had an election. 1400 soldiers killed? Yeah but what about that election! etc.

[LynnTheDem]

12. 9 suicide bombers...just in Baghdad.

The "election" won't go well because the violance will only continue on and the dying will only continue on, and just as with bush's Mission Accomplished and the We Got Him and the Sovereignty Handover, this will shorty be seen as just another total FUBAR.

I'm going with the experts on this one; they say this "election" will only make the situ worse; they've been dead right so far.

Which means bush will shut up very fast as soon as the world sees the same ol same ol going down in Iraq.

[wildflower]

13. I hope it goes well...

Without violence, and with many citizens having the feeling they're taking their country back.

But even if it does go well, I see two possible (probable) problems after the election:

1) Allawi is the one "elected" and people doubt his legitimacy.

2) Increased rather than decreased violence as the Iraqis will now want the U.S. out of the country more than ever. (And if #1 occurs.)

While there may be some self-congratulation here among the GOP, it won't last long because of the above, I fear. Think of the "Mission Accomplished," Saddam's capture, and the "handover" this past June.

-wildflower