Baghdad's Green Zone Is Center of Infant Democracy

[leftchick]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7476250

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"I'm happy because that is the first time we've had an election like this, when we can choose the person we want freely and without fear," said 26-year-old Firas Alyas, one of the Green Zone's many Iraqi contractors.
"I could vote without fear because it's completely fortified."

Mukhlas al-Mudafa, another contactor in the zone -- which houses the U.S. and British embassies in the former palaces of Saddam and his sons -- was equally enthusiastic.

"When we voted in the past, there was always a man watching us and asking us what we had written," he said. "But today I chose with my full freedom and nobody affected that choice."

[LynnTheDem]

1. "I could vote without fear because it's completely fortified."

"today I chose with my full freedom"

Laugh??? Or cry???

[leftchick]

3. both

:(

[burythehatchet]

2. "this contractor gravy train, its too cool, thank you Americans

you killed my family but now I work for an American contractor" he added.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Congratulations, Iyad Allawi!

You're now the new mayor of the Green Zone!

[Spazito]

8. Yep, just like Karzai is mayor of PARTS of Kabul....

while warlords and the Taliban rule the rest of Afghanistan. Same crap, different country, democracy as defined by the bush cabal.

[Rockerdem]

5. The Reuters title makes me want to retch

[MsMagnificent]

6. Ooooh a bay-bee democracy!

ain't dey so CUTE at dat age??

You gon' grow up to be a big spankin' Dee-mock-race-ee sum day wif good ole boy Ree-pub-likan Po'k barrel spending til them gee-neticcally manipuladed cow's done come home?

What a widdle big man you are! Yes you are! Yess you are!

*pinching harder & shaking cheek*

Iddy-biddy-widdy... Goo-goo gah-gah...!

ad infinitum, ad nauseum

[WillyT]

7. LOL !!! - I Thought WE Were The Ones With The Infantile Democracy ???

At least for the last four years, with another four to go!

:shrug:

"I don't wanna go to the U.N....

"I don't wanna release the Energy Task Force papers...

"I don't wanna have an independent 9\11 Commision...

etc.................