Sandpiper
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Sun Jan-30-05 02:57 PM
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U.S. Soldiers going around asking people why they're not voting |
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<snip> As polls opened across the country, early signs showed a poor turnout of voters in Mosul. US soldiers were seen driving around city blocks asking why residents were not voting.<snip> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/674D4BC3-BDA3-41AF-9D40-B80D79F812F9.htmDemocracy indeed.
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Sun Jan-30-05 02:59 PM
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1. Iraqi's know a rigged election when they see it. |
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They watched what happened here in the U.S.
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Sun Jan-30-05 03:00 PM
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2. Didn't Saddam do the same thing? |
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Sun Jan-30-05 03:01 PM
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3. handing out teddy bears too |
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Sun Jan-30-05 03:26 PM
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4. are they phone banking too? n/t |
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Sun Jan-30-05 04:08 PM
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9. As soon as they turn the phones on again. |
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Then just wait until the Iraqis get a piece of that selling by phone.
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Sun Jan-30-05 03:31 PM
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5. "Why ain't ya eatin' yer lunch?" |
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query from various schoolyard thugs after having arms pounded to pulp and the lunch money removed...x(
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Sun Jan-30-05 03:33 PM
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6. That's like what the Soviets did in the Baltic states |
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only they told people that if they didn't vote, they wouldn't get a ration card. The vote had only one option on it: "I want Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia to join the Soviet Union."
Or there was the Salvadoran election of 1984, when the range of candidates ran from right-wing to outright fascist, and the government told people that anyone who didn't vote would be considered a guerilla and liable to be shot on the spot.
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Sun Jan-30-05 03:51 PM
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7. But -- but -- but -- the Soviets |
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COUNTED the votes. ALL of them.
Even in El Salvador, they counted the ALL votes. And they had a paper trail as well.
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Cronus Protagonist
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Sun Jan-30-05 03:56 PM
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8. I wonder why they don't vote? |
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Sun Jan-30-05 04:28 PM
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10. I saw a photo reportedly from Fallujah |
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A lot of men lined up inside barbed wire--they couldn't leave that line if they wanted to.
If the truth ever comes out, we may find out that people were not just asked, but forced to "vote."
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