43% of Iraqis vote amid violance

[LynnTheDem]

Stupid article, won't let me copy & paste. IF Allawi's "72%" (and God knows how he came up with that number; no one else seems to know) is correct, then 72% of registered voters is 43%.

Funny how Rice et al aren't chanting the 43% figure...

http://www.baou.com/newswire/main.php?action=recent&rid=20020

And as this article points out; "Once again, Iraq's leader will be determined by a single individual".

Uh huh. "Democracy" strikes again.

[spanone]

1. You expect 'truth' from rice???????? Don't hold your breath.

[pinkpops]

2. AP - Iraqis Cast Their Votes, Despite Attacks

The question is, how much does the WH pay for a favorable headline? We know they have journalists on their payrolls now, don't we?

[GetTheRightVote]

3. So another fraud election goes down in history

I do not believe any of this crap anyway. It was run by US & * so you know it is rigged just like our election was, * even often to teach the Iraqs how to steal the election and he probably did too.
I do not believe any of it but I do believe there is about to be a civil war in Iraq due to angry over all the lies and deceit. Now, that I do believe, just sitting back to see it happen now.

:kick:

[Just Me]

4. 72% of the 10% who registered amounts to 7 out of 100 casting vote.

I am so tired of the misleading bullshit.

Merely 10% of eligible voters registered. 72% of registered voters voted.

Hence, merely 7% of those who could have voted cast a vote.

Not impressive.

Moreover, that 7% cast a blind vote on 7,000 unknown/unnamed candidates. That's not an election,...it's a lotto.

[Bouvet_Island]

5. Ah, great

You have a source for the registration numbers?

CIA factbook gives that the median age in Iraq is 19 years. 15 million is about 60% of the population, that article is saying that registration is at about 100-110 percent. Illiteracy is at about 40% or population over age 15.

I think the extra million from the fourteen seen elsewhere is the foreign vote...

[anarchy1999]

6. Who is bying this tripe? I mean really? Come on? Does that include

all the ex-patriates voting in other countries they now live in?