World leaders praise Iraqi poll

[rodeodance]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4220551.stm

World leaders praise Iraqi poll


....President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair - the leaders of the two nations which led the invasion of Iraq - hailed them as a resounding success.

And UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Iraqis should be encouraged to take control of their own future.....



.....Countries which opposed the invasion also said the election had been good news for Iraqis.

French President Jacques Chirac described them as a "great success for the international community", while a spokesman for German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said the high turnout showed Iraqis wanted to take their future into their own hands.....

[izzie]

1. I think these people wish to rule them selfs.

I think every one would like to do that,and now if the US will leave them alone. I fear the fix is in for Bush to keep control, but I may be wrong.:shrug:

[ausiedownunderground]

2. Sistani wins or Bush is Toast!!!

[no_to_war_economy]

3. * administration opposed one-person, one-vote elections

juancole.com snip

Moreover, as Swopa rightly reminds us all, the Bush administration opposed one-person, one-vote elections of this sort. First they were going to turn Iraq over to Chalabi within six months. Then Bremer was going to be MacArthur in Baghdad for years. Then on November 15, 2003, Bremer announced a plan to have council-based elections in May of 2004. The US and the UK had somehow massaged into being provincial and municipal governing councils, the members of which were pro-American. Bremer was going to restrict the electorate to this small, elite group.

swopa link: http://www.needlenose.com/node/view/1043

[Jack Rabbit]

4. "Iraqis should be encouraged to take control of their own future"

I couldn't agree more.

Now, if yesterday's elections produce an Iraqi government that will tell (not ask) Bush to take his troops out, tell (definitely not ask) the war profiteers to just go and leave Iraq's resources where they found them and, finally, invalidate the 100 decrees of Governor General Bremer, then I will believe it was a step in that direction.