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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:18:15 PM EDT
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Up to 15 million Iraqis — including large numbers of Sunnis, who boycotted the January elections — voted in historic parliamentary elections Thursday to establish a permanent democratic government amid only scattered violence.
The polls stayed open one hour later, until 6 p.m. local time (10 a.m. EST), because of such high turnout. Long lines were reported in some precincts, said commission official Munthur Abdelamir, some of which wrapped around neighborhood blocks. The commission said results will be announced within two weeks.  |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:21:30 PM EDT
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It seems that, contrary to the ideas of the left, these people DO want democracy and are willing to work for it... more so than us Americans even...I wish we had that kind of voter turnout.
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:23:08 PM EDT
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I like the morons that complain about everything,then when you ask who they voted for they tell you they dont vote. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:27:34 PM EDT
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Just wait until they have Iraqi equivalents to Al Gore and the Hildebeast, then they will be just like us...NOT turning out in droves to vote.....
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:28:03 PM EDT
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I really admire the Iraqis, idesspite armed attacks against the voters and some even some voters getting killed during the first elections, they pick themselves up and went to the polls, many even bringing their familiies in tow. Here in the USA, many people didn't vote becasue it was cold or rainging, or whatever.
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:31:18 PM EDT
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CNN is talking about the old Zarqawi story, not the elections. Gosh, who woulda thunk it?
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:31:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:35:13 PM EDT
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The elections is why the Democrats have been beating the drums so loudly over how bad Iraq is lately. This is horrible news for them. They would wish the elections failed and chaos rained down on the Iraqi people today. It is pathetic.
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:37:22 PM EDT
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It's worse than that. They also dream of the defeat of our own military! Traitors, all of them! 
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:37:45 PM EDT
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Democrats suck
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:27:09 PM EDT
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I just
 ed over onto the DUm-DUms.With the exception of a few threads, they are ignoring the topic completely. Of course there is this one guy... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5609172 Who can't tell which side to listen to. ooops  Fixed |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:29:13 PM EDT
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Gigglesmith,
Please un-hotlink that item. We don't like hotlinks to d u here. Thanks! DigDug |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:38:50 PM EDT
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Saying the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted today asshat |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:45:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:45:50 PM EDT
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should kill that hotlink, and I see that you did 
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:45:59 PM EDT
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I am positive though that somehow this will all be George Bush's fault
.Hell everything else is .I am sure if I would ask an America hating lib they could tell me how the ice storm we are getting is his fault.If global warming is his fault,why not cold inclement weather in the middle of winter
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:53:29 PM EDT
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It's an old picture, but bears repeating:
Why did 2,145 American soldiers die? For this: 
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:55:45 PM EDT
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"Every purple finger is another bullet in the heart of terrorism." quoted by FNC as an unidentified Iraqi voter said while leaving a polling place today.
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:56:33 PM EDT
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Kick ass!
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:57:34 PM EDT
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And who fought against their freedom the whole way? The Defeatocrats.
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:58:04 PM EDT
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I heard G. Gordon say on his show today that NPR was running old stories about Katrina rather than anything on the elections because they had geared up for low turnout/high violence and when that didn't happen they bailed on the coverage. Can anyone verify that? It sounds just TOO blantant to be true but it's right out of the libtard media's playbook nonetheless. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:02:11 PM EDT
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what would they do if someone who has no hands voted? paint his nose purple?
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:03:57 PM EDT
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I heard Senator Joseph Biden said that today's election was a good "first step."
WTF? "first step"? WTF does he think we've been doing over there the last few years leading up to the elections? Moron. 
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:05:28 PM EDT
[#23]
She's a hottie!  
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:11:37 PM EDT
[#24]
Drop your pants! Oh, I see you were behind a little hottie in line and it's already "purple". 
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:13:12 PM EDT
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Don't worry... they'll be happy again when the election results turn out an "Iran lite" type Iraqi govt.
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:14:17 PM EDT
[#26]
Here here!
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:22:07 PM EDT
[#27]
They are voting for a democratic government. Something the democrats are frightened to hell of. Are you frightened to? Must be. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:30:59 PM EDT
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Wow |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:39:50 PM EDT
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The worst news a Democrat could hear right now
Yeah, I'd say so... because it's going to be more work for them, when Hillary gets elected in '08 and has to not only continue converting the US but also Iraq to socialism. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:45:08 PM EDT
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Democrats aren't going to have a chance in 2006 or 2008. They have no platform and are completely over the edge. Unless more centrist members take the party back, the democratic party is in serious trouble. Barbara Streisand is main stream for todays democratic party. That spells doom for them. So what happens if/when Joe Lieberman becomes an independant or a republican? He's being forced that way right now. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:13:58 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:15:59 PM EDT
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Is that a picture of Barney's proctologist?
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:23:24 PM EDT
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Yeah, Barney came by today. That boy's got a real hygeine problem, let me tell ya! 
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:32:46 PM EDT
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As much as the Dems would love to see that... and indeed much of the liberal media is pushing that angle... it is unlikely. The Kurds alone are sufficient to prevent that. Now, with a large portion of Sunnis participating, it is very unlikely. It is very possible that what could develop in Iraq, if things continue on course, is a Muslim nation of multiple denominations of Islam where regional and tribal bounds are more important. It is analogous to what developed in the US... a predominately Christian nation of two or three large Christian demonations where people identify community more closely with their state or city or county than they do with their religion. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:39:27 PM EDT
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Maybe the Iraqi's finally figured out that the fastest way to get rid of us is to elect a government, rebuild their army and ask us to leave...
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:39:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:42:59 PM EDT
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I would like to pass Rush's advice on to any liberal.
Just imagine that Bill Clinton is still in the White House, but everything else is the same. Said liberal will become a happy person. They can give Bill credit in their mind for all the good in Iraq, good economy here etc,. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:43:10 PM EDT
[#38]
 How true! Simple. Accurate. Gotta love it!
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:45:19 PM EDT
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This is so cool!!! |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:46:31 PM EDT
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I hate to break it to you guys, this isn't about the Dems. It's about Iraq not becoming another Iran, a radical Islamic Theocracy. And that's where they are headed with the shiite majority that will vote the way the clerics tell them to like sheep. Yeah, Iran has democratic elections too. But the Ayatollahs still call the shots.
If Sistani gets the vote, it will be Iran #2. Better hope for Allawi or some other secular candidate. That mess ain't over yet. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:48:01 PM EDT
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Yes, Dr. Dover. Dr. Ben Dover. Sorry. Kinda. Not really. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:13:17 PM EDT
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The thing scaring him is the same thing that scares most of the Democrats in Washington… the smell of victory in the air. They would rather see the US lose that George Bush succeed. The American people are starting to see the progress despite the MSMs attempts to bury it. The better things get in Iraq the shriller and more desperate they will become. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:18:46 PM EDT
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The GOP doesn't exactly have a stable of thoroughbreds either, ace. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:18:57 PM EDT
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I get the feeling that the anti-Bush pessimists are actually HOPING that Iraq turns into some kind of theocracy. They bring the possibility up whenever the subject of free elections arise, as though this is their chance to say that liberating Iraq and getting rid of Saddam only made matters worse. So they find themselves rooting for the worst-case scenario so they can somehow salvage the otherwise contemptible position of defending a tyrant and denying millions of people their freedom, just because Bush advocated it.
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:21:01 PM EDT
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BS... Iran does not have democracy or democratic elections only damn idiot would say they do. The Iranians have been trying to kill Sistani for years in case you didn't notice. Sistani is of the Shiite historical tradition that does not favor direct involvement of the clerics in politics, indirect guidance but not direct involvement. The Iranian Ayatollahs are in direct conflict with Shiite tradition. Either way they will not get a ruling majority and will have to form a coalition government… that is democracy. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:24:16 PM EDT
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Iraqis voting is a good thing. Hell yes, good news.
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:24:52 PM EDT
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The GOP doesn't exactly have a stable of thoroughbreds either, ace. yup... plus the damage that Bush has done for the Republican party... not drastic mind you but by election time people will be whining even more about pulling troops out and no doubt the Dems will play that card ten fold... |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:25:10 PM EDT
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They are going to make that claim no matter the facts. BUT Sistani is not Ayatollah Khomeini no matter how much they want him to be. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 9:52:42 PM EDT
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We're not there to put down the Islamic religion,
Our goal is to marginalize or kill the criminal clerics who use it as a rallying point for power. Syria is next, then Indonesia. Hopefully by that time Iran will have millions who are jealous of the freedoms enjoyed by Afgans and Iraqis. Once Iran is rid of these clerics, Saudi will be left alone. Communism took 40 years to defeat, this will not be a quick victory. But this is a fight we must win. These murders will not stop killing on their own. This isn't a fight over religion or politics, it pure survival. |
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Posted: 12/16/2005 4:56:14 AM EDT
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I don't get it... do they have to write their choice by finger painting it? |
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