Bush was right. The elections have spread freedom like wildfire .....

[Botany]

....... all over Iraq. A 72% turnout is great. Far less terrorist acts happened than were
expected. I was wrong. Bush was right. There I said it. We all should say
it .....but with one more little line ...... O.K. we are pulling out of Iraq, now right?

Come on DUers let us admit our mistakes about saying * was an unelected idiot
who would be lucky to work in a Burger King who got away with insider trading
took tax money to build a private baseball stadium and was AWOL doing coke
as John Kerry was risking his life in the Jungles of Vietnam. #

I was wrong! Now get out of Iraq ASAP. The elections were perfect.

:bounce:


# I forgot the one year of community service he did for coke in 1972
COCAINE:
According to a new book, three independent sources close to the Bush family report that Governor Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession, and taken to Harris County Jail, but avoided jail or formal charges through an informal diversion plan involving community service with Project P.U.L.L., an inner city Houston program for troubled youths at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's dirt-poor Third Ward. (In another new book, reporter Bill Minutaglio, writes that the year of community service was arranged by the Governor's father, ex-president Bush, after he caught Bush Jr. driving drunk.)

[zanana]

1. Some people will believe anything.

Now, we wait with much anticipation to see which party wins the election! Could it possibly be Allawi? I'm sure that since we have honest and open elections here, the Iraqi people will have honest and open elections, too; Fox news says so.

[expatriot]

2. We'll see...

These elections certainly weren't "free" as the media is spinning... they were held in an occupied country and put on by occupational forces.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

3. i couldn't disagree with you more

and frankly i think it's pretty gross that you believe this 72% crap.

this is exactly what * wants to happen -- to soften his image in the eyes of progressives.

while I agree that voting is empowering and an amazing right these people have never had before, you are forgetting SO much about this:

-- I can tell you right now Allawi will be the winner.
-- Over 30 people have DIED, who knows how many have been wounded (anyone seen the MSM talk about this number? Me either.)
-- "72%" is coming from the mouths of US military and Iraqi "officials"
-- separate voting lines for men and women (is this society suitable for a democracy as we know it?)
-- an entire ethnic group/religious sect is completely boycotting this.
-- and the MSM is showing the same person voting over and over, kids playing in the street, and Iraqis in other countries dancing after they vote, c'mon you don't have to be a total idiot to see right through that.

Remember why we are against this war, at least why I am against this war...at its heart, we are manipulating the future of another society with complete disregard for the many sociological and psychological forces that are at work here. democracy is not something that can be delivered, it is something that must be cultivated internally.

I hardly call separate voting lines and the exclusion of an ethnic group/religious sect the result of any internal cultural revolution.

EDIT -- apologies if the original post was sarcasm, I couldn't tell. The rant felt good though so thank you anyway.

[Botany]

8. it was sarcasm

but still let us declare victory and get out now.

:nuke:

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

10. heh heh see disclaimer n/t

[Kahuna]

4. Correction. It's 72% of "registered voters." That doesn't include..

all of the people who were too intimidated to register. So why don't they tell us, what percentage of people eligible to vote are registered?

[spanone]

5. You expect the 'truth' out of bushco??? Bwahahahahahahahaha

[lonestarnot]

6. Who's report are you reading? I just woke up and read only 2 people voted

:evilgrin: and they voted from U.S.A.

[Jim__]

7. Sounds like the biggest victory for bush since he declared major

combat operations in Iraq had ended. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

It would be great if Iraq became a democratic country. I beleieve that is as unlikely today as it was yesterday.

[Swamp Rat]

9. There was NO election in Iraq.

You can believe that if it makes you feel better.

[pansypoo53219]

11. IF iWaq becomes 'democratic'

it is in despite of Bush, not because of Bush.