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Official Media Iraqi Election Mea Culpa Thread
Anybody...Bueller?/ ^ | 30 Jan 2005 | Rokke

Posted on 01/30/2005 6:26:47 AM PST by Rokke

I'm sure this will be a short thread, but I'd just like a thread for people to compile all the media, talking head, democrat, overall defeatist et al, comments admiting they've been wrong all along about whether an election in Iraq was possible or about the Iraqi's desire for freedom.


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KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqielection; shortestthreadever
Surely there must be at least one....
1 posted on 01/30/2005 6:26:47 AM PST by Rokke
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To: Rokke

Dude, all I hear are crickets.


2 posted on 01/30/2005 6:27:36 AM PST by AQGeiger (RKBA Royal Enumerator of the Leguminous Stockpile, Wielder of the Enchanted Endoscope of Justice.)
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To: Rokke

< crickets chirping >


3 posted on 01/30/2005 6:27:59 AM PST by lormand (Yankee Go Home!...but please take me with you)
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To: Rokke

I'll hold my judgment until I see what kind of government they've voted for.


4 posted on 01/30/2005 6:28:09 AM PST by Nataku X (Despite violence, Iraqis turn out at about 72%. All non-caring Americans should be ashamed.)
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To: AQGeiger

LOL ;)


5 posted on 01/30/2005 6:29:04 AM PST by stopem
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To: Rokke

It'll never happen.


6 posted on 01/30/2005 6:29:38 AM PST by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: Rokke

7 posted on 01/30/2005 6:30:02 AM PST by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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To: Rokke

8 posted on 01/30/2005 6:30:35 AM PST by Uncledave
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To: Fenris6

That is an awesome picture.


9 posted on 01/30/2005 6:30:49 AM PST by Rokke
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To: Rokke
There's no bloodbath - a civil war does not appear in the offing. Both the realists and the Leftists will never admit they overexaggerated what would happen in Iraq today. Doom and gloom? Hardly!

Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."

10 posted on 01/30/2005 6:30:56 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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Surely there must be at least one....

No, but there is a thread on Democrat Underground where a poster is giving the terrorists new ideas and other posters are high-fiving him.

Does that count?

11 posted on 01/30/2005 6:30:56 AM PST by Lazamataz (Running around in a circle waving my arms and screaming like a little girl)
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To: Rokke

It's a quagmire....LOL!!


12 posted on 01/30/2005 6:30:58 AM PST by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: Rokke

13 posted on 01/30/2005 6:32:28 AM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Rokke

I'm sure they'll start asking about chads, undervotes, and whining about them needing an "electoral college" instead.


14 posted on 01/30/2005 6:33:10 AM PST by theDentist (Jerry Springer: PBS for White Trash)
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To: Lazamataz
"there is a thread on Democrat Underground where a poster is giving the terrorists new ideas"

Well, I suppose that is at least a sign they are admitting defeat. I remember them giving Howard Dean a bunch of new ideas after his AAAARGGGGHHH speech. Apparently, Howard Dean doesn't read DU. I don't imagine the terrorists give it much thought either. Too bad. DU is the best friend the terrorists have left.

15 posted on 01/30/2005 6:33:57 AM PST by Rokke
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To: Rokke

From DU

LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-30-05 09:07 AM
Original message
Iraqis are NOT voting for a new government! They are NOT voting for a new leader!

(snip)
LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-30-05 09:27 AM
Response to Reply #4

7. Oh pulleeeese!


And if China invaded America and occupied America and forced an election on Americans to vote under foreign occupation under martial law for an unknown group to next year select an unknown group to select an unknown president and government for America, YOU would vote???

Only an idiot would think...well never mind.





And now back to the REAL world. I hope you enjoyed this brief trip into the fever swamp.
Come back soon hear.


16 posted on 01/30/2005 6:36:55 AM PST by Valin (Sometimes you're the bug, and sometimes you're the windshield)
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To: Rokke

So far they seem to be playing it down, although I just read one headline that said the election is not really democracy. I guess that beats admitting that they were WRONG.


17 posted on 01/30/2005 6:37:36 AM PST by midwyf
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To: Rokke

To liven this thread up, a group of Dancing Kurds

A group of Iraqi Kurds celebrate their country's national elections outside a polling station in the northern city of Kirkuk, January 30, 2005. Millions of Iraqis flocked to vote in a historic election Sunday


18 posted on 01/30/2005 6:44:59 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( The Year of Freeping Dangerously)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Wow. What a picture. Clearly there is nothing but chaos, anarchy, people begging for the return of Saddam, and anti-American hatred.

If anyone still has any doubt our mainstream media is obsolete, that picture ought to clear things up.

19 posted on 01/30/2005 6:51:51 AM PST by Rokke
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To: Rokke

poor ol Teddy, he may just go jump off the Chappaquidick bridge this time! What on earth can he fume about tomorrow?


20 posted on 01/30/2005 6:54:20 AM PST by midwyf
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