Posted on 01/12/2005 10:16:53 AM PST by FreeKeys
'No election' for parts of Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has admitted for the first time that violence will prevent some parts of Iraq voting in this month's election. "There are some pockets that will not participate in the election, but they are not large," he said.
He spoke on a day when at least 15 people were killed across the country.
At least six police officers died in Tikrit, seven Iraqis were killed in an attack south of Baghdad, and at least two died in a bomb in Samarra.
Iraq's interim government has announced it has set aside $2.2bn of this year's budget to strengthen the security forces, who will be responsible for maintaining order on polling day, 30 January.
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LET'S SUGGEST ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR THE DANGEROUS IRAQI NEIGHBORHOODS.
(LONG DISTANCE IS CHEAP THESE DAYS)
Freep the Government:
The U.S. Senate phone operator is 1-202-224-3121.
The U.S. House phone operator is 1-202-225-3121.
The White House comment line is 1-202-456-1111.
Yeah, what message do you suggest we send?
The U.S. Congress is not going to run the Iraqi elections.
What neighborhoods in America threaten people with suicide bombings if they dare go to the polls?
Well, if you're a Democrat, standing in the rain, standing in the cold or just standing for a long time is "voter disenfranchisement"!
Name one.
So? Dem fraud has long prevented voting for president in many big cities in the US.
In 1864, 11 of the 36 United States did not participate in the presidential election.Was Lincoln's election therefore illegitimate?
While I was on the phone to my Congressman's office, I asked his admin aide if they had contacts at the Pentagon to forward good suggestions to. She not only said, "yes," but "I'm going to do that."
If she had said "no," I would have asked who would have such contacts. If she had said she didn't know, I would have asked who would know. If she still didn't know, I would have asked if there were anyone else in the office at that time who would know. If she said no, I would have asked what would be a good hour to call back and find someone who DID know, and who would that person be? If she STILL didn't know, I would have actually typed a snail-mail letter to my Congressman himself, not only with the suggestion, but with the story of the incompetence displayed in his office.
I not only called my Congressman and Senators' offices, I called the office of Rep. Duncan Hunter, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. They graciously accepted my suggestion too.
The murders going on in the cities you mention are largely the result of the illegal drug trade. In other words, the largest majority of the dead are putting themselves in harms way by the unfortunate choices they have made. In Baltimore, my home town, we had nearly 300 murders in '04. I believe I read that nearly approx 2/3 of them had to do with the drug trade. I'll wager that's true in each of the cities you mention.
Not too many IED's going off out in front of HarborPlace, or along the Charles St corridor, or Fells Point, or Federal Hill, or Canton.
I have, and it is a dangerous neighborhood, but you don't get threatend for voting.
for what?
No.
But just because it may be obvious to you and me that absentee ballots are the way to go in parts of Iraq, it doesn't mean that Alawi's people or anybody at the DOD has even thought of it yet, does it?
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