How come the VERY pro-US Kurdish north was ONLY 60%????!!

[LynnTheDem]

They have excellent security, and are VERY pro-US, versus the Shia and Sunni, who are both a majority anti-US...yet only 60% in Kurdish Irbril voted???! :wow:

And the US Cabal are saying 60% overall voting for Iraq???! :wow:

I don't THINK so!

http://www.juancole.com

Doesn't look like Iraq's turnout will come close to bushCabal's "80%" they chanted last week...or the 80% turnout of Vietnam's 1967 elections -4 months prior to the Tet Offensive.

An aside; Apparently the Kurds are unaware of the fact that bushCabal promised Turkey that American forces would attack the Kurds, IF Turkey allowed the US the right to use Turkey as a launch for invasion. Turkey said no to the US, so the US backed the Kurds. The Kurds, as a result of US backing, are very pro-US.

Think very hard, Kurds, before you back a nation that has a very long history of betrayal.

[w4rma]

1. Only like 15% of the eligible voters registered. So that would mean ~9%

of the eligible voters voted in the Kurdish north.

[oblivious]

2. I think the Sunnis in that area boycotted the election didn't they?

And the security was far from excellent.

[LynnTheDem]

3. In Kurdish North???

No, there's very few Sunnis in that area, it's almost solidly Kurdish, and the security is quite excellent.

[Disturbed]

4. Millions of Kurds are...

Sunnis.

[LynnTheDem]

5. And they're KURDS. Who are overwhelmingly PRO-US

And SHOULD have been well up into the 80%+ turnout for voting. But weren't.

And if the Kurds were only showing up at 60% in such a stable area, I find it beyond reason that overall voting in Iraq was 60%.

Hmmm...exactly whay my OP said.

[leftchick]

6. Shades of Ohio! No ballot boxes!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/international/middleeast/30cnd-mosu.html

~snip~


But Mr. Goran said that four Kurdish districts outside of Mosul - Shaikhan, Bartila, Bashika and Karakosh (also known as Hamdani) - did not receive ballot boxes or supplies, so Kurds were unable to vote there. A Kurdish Democratic Party spokesman, Mahdi Harki, said that the population in those areas was about 300,000, with at least 100,000 of those eligible to vote.

"I am afraid it was a dirty trick against the Kurdish vote," Mr. Harki said.

Mr. Goran met General Ham to discuss the problem. He said General Ham wanted to help but that it was the responsibility of the Independent Electoral Commission for Iraq to ask the military to transport the voting materials.

Mr. Kazar , the election official, said that he knew of the problem early in the morning and had asked the Americans to move the ballots.

Mr. Goran, who is a Kurd, said he believed the motivation behind the mixup was that the expected high turnout of Kurdish voters would tilt the results to heavily favor Kurds, and upset the political balance in the city. "The Kurds will have the whole percentage of the vote," he said. "There are some people here who do not want that," said Mr. Goran.