A thought for this day; I wish the Iraqis well

[Clarkie1]

"Freedom and dignity spring from within the human heart. They are not imposed. And inside the human heart is where the impetus for political change must be generated."

Gen. Wesley K Clark

[FrenchieCat]

1. At last look on the TeeVee though, it appears that the large voter turnout

was a PR myth promogated by America's Pravdas Fox/CNN/MSnbc/ABC/CBS/etc, etc, etc....

In ramadi, a city of 600,00-700,000 Sunnies, only 150 had voted, 5 hours after the polls had opened.

It was reported that the military was saying that even a 5% turn out would be good in that war ravaged part of Iraq....then they suddently upped to feeling that 20% would be a success (must have gotten the Pravda memo).....then today, they were saying that any votes would be great.

Here in the US, Voter turnout was so low, they had to turn away poll workers.

I think that High voter turnout talk was just that....talk.

Certainly there may be high turnouts in certain areas....but methinks, and as General Clark had said a couple of days ago....if the 80% turning out (based on some Republican polling company...who knows how they gathered those numbers) is from oredominately one faction of the Iraq population, then we must see what will happen after this election. Disenfranchised people are not the kind that are going to help the occupation army against insurgents. It would be like having an election here, in the U.S., where 80% of Democrats votee, and 10% of Republicans voted (don't I wish).