72% Iraqi Turnout Stuns U.S. Press

NewsMax.com ^ | 1/30/05 | Carl Limbacher

[ChadGore]

"Curses! Foiled again!

[Dan Evans]

I notice that Iraqi voters get a finger painted blue after they vote. If election fraud gets bad enough in this country we may have to start doing that.</p>

[OldFriend]

They weren't mystery candidates at all. That was our MSM concoction. Iraqi radio stations have been talking about candidates and the election non stop. Ditto their TV stations.

[COUNTrecount]

From another thread posted by a Freeper.

News Web-site Headlines on Iraq Elections 30 January 2005 | Vanity

Posted on 01/30/2005 9:44:00 AM EST by mark502inf

MSNBC: "A Bloody Start to Iraq's Elections"

FOXNEWS "A New Dawn of Democracy"

CNN "Iraqis Vote Amid Violence"

CNN INTERNATIONAL "Bombers Strike as Iraqis Vote"

BBC "Iraq Votes as Attacks Hit Baghdad"

Reuters "Iraq Vote Bloodied by Attacks"

CBS "Bombs on Iraq's Election Day"

ABC "Iraqis Defy Attackers in Historic Election"

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Listening to FoxNews in the background...heard a report with a quote from John Kerry that the results may not be valid because the Sunni turnout was so low.

I guess we'll be hearing the word "disenfranchised" any time now.

[Shooter 2.5]

Nobody wants bloodsucking despots controlling their lives!

And then there's Massachusetts.

[dog breath]

LET FREEDOM RING!!!!

[Hadean]

Lol! Kerry said this morning on "Meet The Press" that he didn't think the 72% turnout was better than expected.
Boy, the cup is ever half empty with these people.

[CaptainK]

Harrigan went over to the other side some time ago. He is a doom and gloomer through and through. I can't wait to hear his spin because he will never admit he was wrong.

[Peach]

A freeper on another thread said the 36 people who died in attacks were all the suicide bombers and that the attacks themselves only injured the innocent.

Does anyone know anything about that?

[OldFriend]

Are you sure Nordland didn't say I HATE to say???????

[jdm]

As I suspected, FOX News and ABC are the most fair and balanced. ABC is getting better.

[demlosers]

The press have always been imbeciles when it come to predicting things.

[GreenHornet]

It looks like the terrorists have been "disenfranchised".

[LasVegasMac]

The bad news is that the ballots were discovered in King County and were cast for Dimwit Gregoire to be Governor of Washington. ;-)

LOL

Syria - "hey, we found some ballots...."

Iran - "Yea, we found some, too!"

LVM

[LisaMalia]

Just saw Kerry giving a soundbite on FoxNews, he's disappointed in the Sunni turnout. Bet not as much as he was in the Democrat turnout on Nov. 2...hehehe

I wish someone would stick a microphone in Chappy Ted's face to get a comment from him. I bet there's a tear in his beer this morning because of the successful election.

[television is just wrong]

LOL, they are wrong again?

[AmericanChef]

The Olde Media never gets it right. They said we couldn't win the war in Afghanistan, we couldn't get elections done in Afghanistan, we couldn't win the war in Iraq, we couldn't get the elections dine in Iraq...

[mikrofon]

Catching some reports from "Comrade-io" in passing, it was made to appear that since the Sunni turnout was low, the election results would not be "legitimate".

Whether it's 20% or 80% turnout in the Sunni areas, the elected representatives from that area of Iraq are going to be Sunni anyway.

Of course, in this country, when a single-party monopoly in any particular area (read: Dem) results in only 10% of voters coming out with the expected outcome, there wouldn't be any question of legitimacy...