Posted on 10/14/2005 9:28:53 PM PDT by sonsofliberty2000
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Voting has begun in Iraq's historic constitutional referendum.
Updates on voter turnout!
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/
Thank you.
For today, just for today, I am going to be deleriously happy all day. I'm going to smile and sing and I'm going to believe.
FREEDOM! How is this EVER a bad thing.
Urge the rest of you to do the same. Forget poll numbers, forget Harriet Miers. Forget the lying press, can you believe CNN is preaching how so many Iraqis don't understand the constitution? Forget CNN!
We're WINNING.
Be Joyful. God bless the Iraqis. Americans would never turn out over 70%. Americans would never stand for purple fingers, especially in the big cities where such a thing would greatly decimate the Democrat vote. Americans would never stand in line for copies of a new constitution. Thanks to our liberal school system, too many Americans don't even understand their own constitution.
We're WINNING!
Thank You George W. Bush.
High= more than 66%
Moderate= 33% - 66%
Low= less than 33%
Duhok: moderate.
Erbil: moderate.
Sulaymania: high.
Mosul: high.
Kirkuk: high.
Diyala: high.
Anbar: unknown.
Baghdad: high.
Babil: high.
Kerbala: high.
Wasit: moderate.
Salahiddin: high.
Najaf: moderate.
Qadisiya: low.
Najaf: moderate.
Thi Qar: moderate.
Maysan: moderate.
Basra: moderate.
Not a bad way to live everyday, Fishtalk!
Thank you for this wonderful, insightful, positive post!
FNC (reporting from Iraq) said 13 a little while ago.
Thanks - I started to do that, but wasn't sure if it was okay to do. Great news!!
We're both nuts. LOL! My hubby was looking at me like I was...until I told him I was cutting and pasting a scrapbook for his brother and his brother's son serving today in Iraq and his own son, still stateside, who decided to watch his cousin's back.
Nary a word out of him now...just a bit of pride peeking out.
such good news from all over this thread..and I like your breakdown..somehow our troops who have served near the various communities and family of same can feel a proud connection. See faces of their contacts & visualize them voting..and I am sure a bitter sweet effect esp for those who lost a loved one there
"and I am sure a bitter sweet effect esp for those who lost a loved one there"
Amen to that.
I refuse to feel stupid imagining a band of angels working overtime today to keep the peace...and unexploded bomb, etc.
Official: Voter turnout in Iraq is mixed
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
http://www.bakersfield.com/24hour/world/story/2805810p-11441400c.html
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Voting in Iraq's predominantly Shiite Muslim south was very high in Saturday's constitutional referendum, but turnout in Anbar, the mostly Sunni Arab province where insurgents are active, was low because of fears of violence, a U.N. official said.
Carina Perelli, director of the Electoral Assistance Division of the United Nations, said she had not yet heard about voting in the heavily Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.
"The report that we have right now basically is the voting in the south is ... extremely high," Perelli told The Associated Press just after the polls closed at 5 p.m.
"The early indication is that the voting Anbar is extremely low because of the special circumstance of that province," she said.
Perelli said voter turnout was very steady in many other mostly Sunni regions, which boycotted legislative elections in January.
She could not give exact turnout figures or any indication of vote results.
Ratification of the constitution, which was strongly favored by the Shiite majority and Kurds, requires approval by a majority of voters nationwide. However, if two-thirds of voters in any three of Iraq's 18 provinces vote "no," the charter will be defeated, and Sunni Arabs had a chance of swinging the ballot in four volatile provinces, including Anbar.
Perelli said there had been far fewer insurgent attacks than expected at the thousands of heavily protected polling stations across Iraq.
"It has been very peaceful," she said.
We are speaking of the same vote. What you call a consolidation of power was the Enabling Act. This was a vote of the remaining ministers. . Not a popular election by the people. However the circumstances surrounding the vote have to be considered. The Nazi's burned the Reichstag down and used a Russian Jewish scapegoat to blame. The reactionary response was to blame the Leadership of the Communist party and as they were a terrorist threat against the state they were not allowed to participate in this vote.
it was fear, intimidation and a weak central government that gave Germany Hitler.
LOL---VERY GOOD!!!!
I was thinking about joing that site...but I notice that Free Republic isn't listed as one of the other sites to check out...
Why not????
SW, I can't locate the post from IraqiKurd, and I've tried everything. Can you post the URL?
Emily Latela says, "NEVERRRRR MIND!" Another Freeper posted it. Thanks, anyway.
Considering the low percentage of voters that turn out for OUT elections...these people are doing GREAT!
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