If your country was occupied by another country would you register to vote?

[NNN0LHI]

Seems like a pretty good way for the occupying force to get a head count with names, addresses and all the other identifying information needed for one to register. I can't imagine anyone being very thrilled about giving this information to a foreign occupying military force that seemed hesitant to declare when they were leaving. Would you do it? I don't think I would.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. if forced to register,

I'd put down my name as Jenna Bush, 1660 Pennsylvania Ave. or something like that.

[Warpy]

2. I'd be Emma Goldman

but the thought would be the same. I'd also vote for whomever I thought had the best chance of ousting the occupiers, even if that person would be bad news for me in the long run.

Don't be shocked if they elect a firebreathing cleric. Don't be shocked if the junta throws the election out.

And then don't be shocked when the country erupts into civil war with the US military cut down in the crossfire.

[stevebreeze]

3. I would also try to obtain ammo for the revolution that would follow

I would be right in line with what the "insurgents" in Iraq are doing now. I would not let a foreign country occupy my country without a fight.

[Solly Mack]

4. No

I'd be too busy resisting them.

Just can't see me collaborating with any country that invaded America.
Not even with Chucklenuts in office. There's absolutely no guarantee the invading force would ever leave. I don't want to live under Shrub's thumb but I don't want to live under an invading forces thumb either.

[Nimrod]

5. It would depend on which country

Guess that makes me a terrorist sympathizer, huh? HLS should be knocking on my door shortly.

[Nobody]

6. Would our votes count

if we don't vote for the candidate they want us to elect?

Oh wait....

[ynksnewyork2]

7. Absolutely

[NNN0LHI]

13. You would risk your life to vote for someone who you never heard of?

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/01/23/iraq_campaign_season_becomes_a_test_of_faith/

Iraq campaign season becomes a test of faith

BAGHDAD -- As Iraq's campaign season winds into its final week, voters will have to make their choices in a fog of limited information. snip

Just over half of Iraqis polled even know when election day is, according to the International Republican Institute, a nonprofit group. The same poll suggested that 46 percent of Iraqis believe that no political party represents them and that only two-thirds plan to vote.

Muslim Yasin, a schoolteacher, clutched a small flier he had been handed when he left his house yesterday in the Hay Jihad area of Baghdad. Beside a picture of a large man in a black suit -- the leader of the Iraqi National Unity Gathering, ballot number 146 -- a legend declared: ''Iraq is our house, we build it and protect it."

''I have no idea who this man is, or what his party is," Yasin said. ''For him, I am supposed to go and vote?"

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[Robbien]

8. People voting yes, please share your reasons why

I cannot imagine giving my name to an occupation which would put a target on my back for both the occupiers and rebel resistance. Also I do not know who I will be voting for, where I would be voting and for what positions the election is being held.

[vixengrl]

9. There's no incentive in it.

Looking at it from the point of view of the occupied, the election occuring under the auspices of the occupying force would make it seem pointless--a sham.

[mcscajun]

10. Why would an occupying country even bother allowing us to vote?

Or if they did, wouldn't they just use force on us so that everyone was registered?

I'm sorry…I'm trying to be logical, unlike * and what's about to happen in Iraq.

[katinmn]

11. No. It just gives the occupier legitimacy they don't deserve.

In this case, Iraqis risk getting shot or blown up by a car bomb going in or out of the polling place.

On the other hand, they might just risk it to get it over with hoping that it might make us leave quicker.

[LynnTheDem]

12. Not if the foreign invaders were the ones arranging the vote

I'd be too busy as a REBEL fighting the foreign invaders to be voting, anyways.

[TWiley]

14. I would register for a FIREARM.

It baffles me that people still believe in the "liberation" idea, or that there is still a chance they will meet us with flowers in the streets.

We are "liberating" them from their mineral wealth. Nothing more.

[NNN0LHI]

15. "baffles me that people still believe in the "liberation" idea" They don't

Its all BS. People think war is good for their 401k's. That is all. They will learn that was a lie pretty soon too when the bills come due for this foolishness.

Don

[whatelseisnew]

16. Maybe if another country came to liberate the US

say, France? I might even throw flowers.