Baghdad blogger: 'Elections our only hope'

[DoYouEverWonder]

12 October, 2004



The "Baghdad blogger", whose weblog gave the world a rare insight into the lives of ordinary Iraqis in the run-up to the US-led invasion, says fair elections are the only way to end the violence in Iraq.

Salam Pax told the BBC's Newsnight programme: "Maybe, just maybe, once we have elections and we have a group of people who truly represent us all, this could be our ticket out of the mess we're in now."

He also warned the coalition against a hasty withdrawal from the region before a credible government took control in Iraq, fearing flawed elections would mean any new leadership being seen as "another American puppet."

"It's very worrying, when you hear someone like Donald Rumsfeld saying that maybe we can't have elections all over the country, possibly excluding the Sunni triangle and other troublesome areas in Baghdad.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/3733104.stm

[SoCalDem]

1. Silly man

He actually thinks that elections will help them... A puppet will be the president...someone who will look out for US interests..

Third World countries have NEVER been "allowed" to control their own fate.:(

[Wright Patman]

2. U.S. must be Third World

also, because when I read that, I immediately thought of our rigged elections and our puppets.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. He said "if" they had fair elections

and an American puppet wasn't installed.

I think he knows the score.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Raed ended up with his own blog

due to a difference of opinion with things in Iraq. Also, check out Baghdad Burning/Riverbend's blog. It gives a lot of insight into what they see and what they're thinking. Salam's out of touch.

[jmcgowanjm]

4. And the US is going to create a Palestinian state too

Maybe, just maybe, like when Iraqi's turn into Finns.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/485491.html

[aneerkoinos]

7. Why Finns?

Because we are the most violent nation in EU (highest murder rate + highest suicide rate)?

Because Palestinians will be granted their state only if they fight as well as Finns against the Russian invaders during WW2, and kill Israeli's in hordes?

:evilgrin:

[jmcgowanjm]

8. who knows what Dov Weisglass' thinks of Finns?

Read this:

http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a1130.htm

[w4rma]

6. Key word is "credible". Considering the mess OUR elections are in

that adjective isn't going to be applied to any elections in Iraq while Republicans control that process.