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A True Story About the Iraqi Overseas Elections and Freeper Activism
Saturday, January 29, 2005
| Kristinn
Posted on 01/29/2005 6:13:04 PM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn
101
posted on
01/30/2005 2:20:18 PM PST
by
spodefly
(Yo, homey ... Is that my briefcase?)
To: kristinn
Bump and chills down my spine. Thanks Kristinn
102
posted on
01/30/2005 2:55:18 PM PST
by
perfect stranger
(Godel, Escher and Bach. The Eternal Golden Braid)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Sure thing! I don't know if he did - I drifted off to sleep. But they archive the shows for a week.
103
posted on
01/30/2005 3:46:44 PM PST
by
bootless
(Never Forget - And Never Again)
To: kristinn
Let us hope that the coverage of Iraqis voting will inspire election departments in this country to go for the purple ink method . . .
104
posted on
01/30/2005 4:37:34 PM PST
by
Liberty Wins
(Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
To: Diva Betsy Ross
the photos of the expatriates voting are also encouraging us non-Iraqi Americans. Well done.
To: kristinn
"The Arab language networks showed the rally in Iraq. Requests were made for copies of the rally and soon a hand held camera version of the rally was being distributed on the Internet among Iraqis online. " The good you guys do just amazes me. The media coverage of ecstatic Iraqis voting here was worth billions to those brave people (and to us).
106
posted on
01/30/2005 5:07:24 PM PST
by
mrsmith
To: kristinn
thanks for all the work you do.
107
posted on
01/30/2005 9:18:16 PM PST
by
Coleus
(Brooke Shields aborted how many children? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1178497/posts)
To: kristinn
That 90 million dollars was not spent in vain. Reading the Iraqi bloggers, it seems that the Iraqis who saw the voter turnout and the tears of joy of the Iraqi expats got them excited about voting. I'm sure that a lot of the large turnout was due to the passion they saw on their TVs.
To: potlatch
109
posted on
01/30/2005 10:20:50 PM PST
by
ntnychik
(Proud member of the Bush-eoisie)
To: kristinn
110
posted on
01/31/2005 12:01:28 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: kristinn
God bless you for all you did! And God bless all the others who helped you.
111
posted on
01/31/2005 2:05:41 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
("You can't hit a home run with softballs." Close to what Reagan said once.)
To: kristinn; All
That last sentence needs to be read by everyone.
112
posted on
01/31/2005 2:06:27 AM PST
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
("You can't hit a home run with softballs." Close to what Reagan said once.)
To: DocRock; kristinn
"What was said at the rally struck a chord with many Iraqis, such that the rally came to the attention of the highest levels of government there. One thing that caught their attention was the call by our friend Nofel Al-jazairi for the inclusion of Iraqi exiles in the upcoming Iraqi elections. After the rally, the government decided to establish the overseas voting program for the Iraqi exiles. Confirmation of this came in a PalTalk session last week.""This is worth repeating!"
Yes it is! D.C. FReepers ROCK!!! bttt
113
posted on
01/31/2005 5:49:48 AM PST
by
Matchett-PI
(Today's DemocRATS are either religious moral relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
To: oreolady
"Can't you just picture today the teddykennedys, babsboxers, hillaryclinton types on their knees praying for a flop election?" But the god they pray to can only do what the God of George W. Bush allows him to do.
Hillary's Marxist mentor, Saul Alinsky, opens his book "Rules for Radicals" with a quote extolling their god:
Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom ~ Lucifer.
114
posted on
01/31/2005 6:49:44 AM PST
by
Matchett-PI
(Today's DemocRATS are either religious moral relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
To: Buckhead
...and its some of the best money the Iraqi interim government has spent, especially in terms of their US public relations.You think?
115
posted on
01/31/2005 8:16:59 AM PST
by
Howlin
(It's a great day to be an American -- and a Bush Republican!!!!)
To: kristinn
IRAQI LIBERATION PING!!!
Great story
116
posted on
01/31/2005 10:39:02 AM PST
by
WOSG
(Liberating Iraq - http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com)
To: kristinn
Afterward, we felt like the rally hadn't been as successful as it could have been. The American media didn't report on it, and it didn't seem to get much play overseas. But then, something happened. The Arab language networks showed the rally in Iraq. Requests were made for copies of the rally and soon a hand held camera version of the rally was being distributed on the Internet among Iraqis online.
What was said at the rally struck a chord with many Iraqis, such that the rally came to the attention of the highest levels of government there. One thing that caught their attention was the call by our friend Nofel Al-jazairi for the inclusion of Iraqi exiles in the upcoming Iraqi elections. After the rally, the government decided to establish the overseas voting program for the Iraqi exiles.
Awesome, purely awesome, kristinn. One thing that really stands out to me is that at first you didn't think the rally had gone so great, with a low turnout and no media reporting on it. You'd tried so hard, done your best, but that was it, nada.
And then it began snowballing past all hopes and made a wonderful difference in the lives of so many Iraqis.:D Good work....
117
posted on
01/31/2005 12:42:51 PM PST
by
xJones
To: kristinn
kristinn, I have some photos of the Iraqi guests and various freepers at the FR ball. You probably have plenty, but if you would like to have these I can e-mail them to you.
118
posted on
01/31/2005 12:49:49 PM PST
by
Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
(THANK YOU LORD -- John Kerry is still just a senator.)
To: kristinn
Yesterday, an Iraqi man stood before the ballot box and held his completed ballot in the air. He said, in a loud voice in Arabic, as he thrust his ballot in the box, "F--- Saddam! F--- Bin laden! F--- Zarqawi! F--- the terrorists!"And who says the Iraqis don't want freedom?
119
posted on
01/31/2005 12:56:00 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Sanford for President in '08!)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
120
posted on
01/31/2005 12:56:31 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(Sanford for President in '08!)
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