[Keen-Minded]

Thank You for keeping everyone straight on this letter regarding the snopes website, and that it is not an Urban Legend as reported in previous posts!

[keepitsimplestupid]

Yes, this is a bunch of baloney.

See this website:
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/rayreynolds.html

I checked up on this information with a few sources:

DoE on Iraqi oil production,
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/ipsr/t11a.xls
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/iraq.html

CPA on local elections:
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/government/TAL.html
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/democracy/shadid.html

More on local elections:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1185792,00.html

None of these reports mention elections in major cities. There's no way that there has been elections in Baghdad since a big section of the city is in revolt. Same for several southern cities. We can't hold local elections for the same reasons that we can't hold national elections.