The Iraqi elections: were they real?

[UdoKier]

Poll question: The Iraqi elections: were they real?

The Iraqi elections: were they real?

[LSdemocrat]

1. They were real only where people could actually vote

Of course in large swathes of the country people couldn't vote, which makes the whole process rather illegitimate.

[amandabeech]

5. The elections probably went better in some Kurdish and Shia

communities where little or no fighting occurred and support for toppling Saddam was probably strongest, IMHO. The Kurds already had a parliament going in the areas that they controlled in the north, so I think that elections probably went quite well there.

However, election participation in the Sunni areas was non-existent, and candidate selection and security looked weak in many parts of central Iraq, particularly in and around Baghdad.

I hope that things work themselves out for Iraqis eventually without bloodshed or another brutal dictator, but I think that the elections for the interim government were only a small, tentative step toward that goal, at best.

[dogday]

2. Nothing about Iraq is real, from the first lie to the last

they have spoon fed us bullshit.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Ok, who's the 1 total IDIOT on this board???

'Fess up!

[LynnTheDem]

8. Wow I am amazed...TWO IDIOTS on this board!

How the hell did we let THAT happen?

Are there REALLY people on the globe who DON'T know that Iraq is OCCUPIED and that "occupation" is the opposite of "free"?

:wow:

[KlatooBNikto]

4. They were as real as the Thanksgiving Turkey Bush delivered,

supposedly, in Baghdad.

Lots of things can be taken care of by Full Spectrum Dominance, John Poindexter's specialty.Illusions are converted to reality when these Zen Buddhists take over.

[bookman]

6. They were theater. n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

7. I think

in general the elections were real but the outcome won't be. I remember after they had the election and started counting a week or so later the Bush camp was crying "fraud" and at the time Allawi had 4% and after he had 14%. I wouldn't trust anything from this government. Also Bush and his people said around 60% of the people came out to vote but I think it was more like 40-50% if that much.

[DrDebug]

9. And there hasn't been a serious investigation either

The election in general went unmonitored and unchecked. So we'll never know what happened.

[Zodiak]

10. Elections, like the occupation, were illegal.

It is a matter of international law that that any election held under occupation is illegal and null.

[Terran1212]

11. Chomsky, etc admits they were real, but...

I have always thought they were an act of appeasemant, designed to keep the Iraqis from rising up against a US-imposed colonial structure. All colonizers give their subjects a little sovereignty, for PR and appeasement purposes.

[NMMNG]

12. Sure they were real

As real as ours are...:eyes: