Posted on 01/29/2005 2:13:42 PM PST by gopwinsin04
Nashville, Tennessee..
Bump
I think the local news stated that they were required to provide a fingerprint with their ID in order to vote.
They're not. Most of them just want to wake up in the morning and have a nice life.
IMHO, Islam is an insane death cult - but most Muslims, in Iraq or elsewhere, are not into that aspect of it. What they really want is that great rice and lamb dish to break the fast after their holiday.
It's not too late.
Email moves at the speed of light.
You underestimate the power of FReepers! ;-)
I suggested this to the White House.
One pic of the President with a blue index finger would be a PR coup of fairly large proportions here, I think...and would even do alot to win hearts and minds in Iraq.
Great idea! (And better than saying "I am a jelly doughnut!")
What? No hanging chads?
I'd like to see a hanging Abu-musab al zaqari.
bump
I understand that there are a lot of iraqi exiles, etc., from decades of despotism, but the idea of having election CENTERS in other countries is an eyebrow-raiser.
what sort of documentation do you have to have to vote?
An Iraqi girl holds up a sign bearing her country's flag with Arabic writing in it, which reads 'Vote for Iraq (news - web sites)', during a celebration in central Baghdad, January 29, 2005.
I don't know about the documentation, but expatriate voting is logical when you have the level of repression you had in Iraq under Saddam. We've brought them a whole new day, and they seem to be pretty happy about it.
Glorious Socialism did NOT make these pictures possible!!!!
What we take for granted...
No, we know the cost. It is blood.
Yeah, as i noted, I understood that decades of people living in exile was an extenuating circumstance....the thought that had popped into my mind was when would we start having voting centers in other countries?
You are so right....
I guess they got the message! I hope all goes as well tomorrow in Iraq itself (actually, I believe it's almost "today" in Iraq).
Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East -- Jan 29, 02:12 PM
Text of report by Quds Press web news agency
Baghdad, 29 January: Eighty five per cent of the Iraqi Sunnis who intend to participate in the election process, which starts on 30 January, have said that they will vote for the list of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi; 6 per cent of those said they would vote for the Iraqi Republican Grouping list, led by Asim al-Janabi; while 3 per cent said that they intended to vote for the Mosul Tribal Council list. The percentage of those who will vote for the Independent Democrats list, led by Adnan Pachachi, ranged between 2.5 per cent and 3 per cent. Meanwhile, about 3 per cent did not specify the list for which they will vote.
A poll conducted by a Quds Press team covered a random sample who said that they intended to go to the polling centres and cast their votes. The number of those polled reached 600, most of whom were from Sunni Arab areas in Baghdad.
The poll focused on the name of the list for which those polled would vote and the reasons for choosing that list. About 70 per cent of those who chose the list of Iyad Allawi expressed their belief that he was the personality most qualified to lead Iraq at this stage, and 14 per cent of those polled voiced their conviction that Allawi was non-sectarian. The answer of 10 per cent of the entrants [on the motive behind voting for Allawi] varied between [his] promises to improve services and promises to provide security, and 6 per cent said that Allawi was the only one who could confront the Iranian influence in Iraq.
It is to be noted that the Quds Press team that conducted the poll faced great difficulties in questioning a sample of Iraqi Sunnis who agreed to take part in the elections in the light of the Association of Muslim Scholars' boycott of and the Iraqi Islamic Party's withdrawal from the elections.
The arsenal of Democracy is alive and well...
They are wretched. They preferred oil for food profits at these peoples' expense...
And to think I bit@@ed about standing in line for two hours to cast my vote for George W. Bush. We as a nation as so lucky and blessed and then to have to listen to Teddy Kennedy trash these people and our President makes me want to scream. I'm sitting here with tears running down my cheeks because I'm so happy that this day has come and they can finally (after how many decades) cast a ballot - something we've been able to do for over 200 years. I hope all goes well tomorrow though I know there will be violence and blood shed. My prayers are with these people who are finding out what democracy means. God bless America; God bless George W. Bush!
He failed to understand that the former leader of his country threatened our country and we were not going to let that stand...
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