Those Allawi Campaign Posters in Baghdad aren't holding up too well.

[leftchick]

An Iraqi man arranges a container of fuel under a defaced election banner of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, in Baghdad on a rainy day. Militants freed eight Chinese hostages but said in a website that they had slain 15 Iraqi soldiers being held captive, after at least 27 people died in two car bomb attacks aimed at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Shiite majority.

... guess who pays for them? We do! Guess who puts some of them up? US soldiers! They think of the most incredible ways to waste US tax dollars.

[noamnety]

1. Do you have a source?

Specifically a source for the statement that US soldiers are putting up campaign posters.

Campaign activities like that violate Defense Department regulations, I thought - though I don't remember if the regs specific US campaigns. I'd like to see more on what the soldiers are doing there.

[leftchick]

4. they are also in control of the official ballots....

at Baghdad international airport. wtf? The US is in control of everything there except the resistance fighters. The puppets are window dressing.

Examples of the sources. Photos in the Yahoo gallery for Iraq. I have lost or they are archived the photos of the ballots and the soldiers handling the posters.

Here is Allawi and his US$ paid mercenaries. Doesn't that go over well with Iraqis?





I flip through the yahoo gallery daily and get more information as to the real story in Iraq. There is no comparing the information in the photos to the crap seen on US nightly "news".

here is a link..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/iraq/082701iraqplane&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=1&e=59&a=&t=&prev=58

[Streetdoc270]

5. not posters but notices of elections

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/iraq/082701iraqplane&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=1&e=77&a=&t=&prev=76

[spanone]

2. Someday we will be sending in troops to get Allawi out of office.

[neebob]

3. I had the same thought yesterday

only mine was a little more developed. Thirty years from now, when my son's about the age I am now (assuming he survives the War on Terror), we'll be going after Allawi - only he'll have serious WMDs.

[KharmaTrain]

6. South Vietnam, 1965, 67, 69...

How convenient for our media to forget about the games we played early on in Vietnam...specifically running their elections...or attempts at them. Just like this travesty, many people in areas not under U.S. control (most the country) never got to vote and the results were rigged by the U.S. to start off with.

What I just can't see is how this regime honestly expects this puppet regime to survive...especially if our military is withdrawn. Alawi wouldn't last 30 seconds outside the Green Zone, and I suspect we'll see him in the past tense sometime soon...even with our protection. Takin him down would put an exclamation point on how inept this occupation has become, and it would be welcomed all throughout Iraq.

Just like everything this regime does, they create their own definitions and "rules" at to what democracy is and how it's to be "imposed" (I always thought rule by the people evolved internally, never imposed externally) and will claim victory on Jan. 30th as long as several ballot boxes show up and can be videoed. Meantime, the reality in Iraq makes any true "peace with honor" in that country all but impossible now. The resentment toward the U.S. increases by the day...the Riversbend blog is a great case in point.

[Robbien]

7. Why bother with the election. Allawi has already won

The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) are part of a consortium to which the US government has provided over $80 million for political and electoral activities in Iraq. NDI is headed by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, while IRI is chaired by Republican Senator John McCain.

We already bought the election for Allawi.