Wanted: Election volunteers (Mosul)

[leftchick]

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-womosu254124988jan25,0,3007897.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines

MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi election officials kicked off a media blitz yesterday in this terror-gripped city aimed at hiring nearly 1,000 election workers in the next six days to help set up and monitor Sunday's landmark vote.

The task is daunting. Hundreds of workers quit last month under threats from insurgents, and until very recently, Khalid Kazar, a skinny 28-year-old official from the Independent Elections Commission of Iraq, had been running mostly a one-man operation in this city of 1.8 million. So far, only six others have joined Kazar's ranks.

Yesterday afternoon, Kazar arranged interviews with local media in hopes of persuading 993 other residents of Mosul to facilitate the nation's first democratic elections in decades.

Despite the long odds of rounding up enough workers in such a short time, U.S. military officials said they were certain elections would occur in Mosul, the country's third-largest city.

"Time is ticking," said Army Civil Affairs Maj. Anthony Cruz, the military's liaison with the Iraqi commission in Mosul. "We're short on workers, but we're trying to address that."

[Spinzonner]

1. Over their dead bodies

Probably.

[FlemingsGhost]

3. Yup ... I'm sure folks are dying to get that gig. (n/t)

Flem.

[egoprofit]

19. very very sad

:cry:

[Wilms]

2. Must be familiar with all forms of vote rigging.

Own armor a plus.

[Spinzonner]

4. Not covered by most insurance plans

[Azathoth]

5. Wanted: Moving Targets (no health plan included)

Now that's a job offer that's bound to get some volunteers...

[Cooley Hurd]

6. How many more people must die for this sham election?

I still can't believe anyone thinks this election will be conclusive in any way. The civil war starts on 1/31...:grr:

[nine23]

7. I find it absolulely amazing...

...that in a city with a population only a little smaller than the city in which I live, they're even THINKING about having an "election"...with six election workers hired thus far...

What a tragic freakin' joke.

[orpupilofnature57]

8. Do we have any marines left?Does shrub have a clue?Send

KKKarl over, have him promote it, just have him charm Moslem's the way he worked the fundies for shrub.

[Kolesar]

9. Send Ken Blackwell...eom

[GiovanniC]

10. Wow, Well Where Do I Sign Up?

n/t

[Nihil]

11. What? Have Halliburton not put in a bid?

My, my ... I thought CheneyCo were just the considerate, self-less
charitable people that this job needs? Maybe their application has
got lost in the post ... the Halliburton-controlled post ... or maybe
they are just responding to those slanderous people who suggest that
Halliburton are making too much money out of the Iraq slaughterhouse ...

Must be time for another of those no-bid contracts: Halliburton to do
some humanitarian work ... no, sorry, that's just too ridiculous ...
how about "Halliburton to assist with democracy in Iraq"?

Nurse ... where are my tablets?

[porkrind]

12. So leftchick, are you volunteering?

:)

Me, I think I'll sit this one out. :) This election is going to be a serious "cluster-f". All this effort for a sham election to elect a puppet-leader for our new "client state".

Iraq is now such a mess. I really feel sorry for all the kids over there. :( I hope it can get straightened out ASAP, but I don't think it will. If anything, we'll make it worse. :(

[leftchick]

17. not for 80 billion dollars!

It will be some deep shit.
I feel so sorry for all of the innocent people about to die.

:(

[0007]

13. Bring the troops home and quit antagonizing those poor

people that want peace and not our form of Democracy.

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable."
U.S. historian Howard Zinn, 1993

[Career Prole]

14. No thanky...I'm gonna hold out for one of those safer jobs.

Crash dummy, human guinea pig, bomb squad...something like that

[Guns Aximbo]

15. I'm a coward

No thanks. I don't think so.

[fortyfeetunder]

16. There must be plenty of them in Florida...LOL

I say get the Republican Party in Florida to volunteer.

[Canuckistanian]

18. This is a job for... The 101st Fighting Keyboarders!

Faster than a speeding blast fax, more powerful than a bunker buster, able to make great leaps of false logic..... Look, down in that basement! Is it a slug or a weasel? No, it's.. The 101st Fighting Keyboarders!