High turnout in Iraq’s day of voting

Khaleej Times ^ | 10/15/05 | Khaleej Times

[brushcop]

It's almost a non-event on MSM. Foxnews website has OLD news concerning people going to the polls--THE POLLS ARE CLOSED!! As I write this it is 12 MIDNIGHT in Baghdad!! What a bunch of dumba***s. I have no respect for Foxnews either.

God bless those wonderful Troops who made the plan of our Commander in Chief happen! GO 2-69 of the 3ID at FOB Gabe!! You do us proud.

Down with the anti-American, anti-military, anti-President Bush DemoCRAPS! You only dreamed of '06, scum, the gauntlet is thrown and we've picked it up!

[Albion Wilde]

A day that US and Iraqi leaders feared could turn bloody turned out to be the most peaceful in months....Insurgents attacked five of Baghdad’s 1,200 polling stations with shootings and bombs, wounding seven voters. But the only deaths were those of three Iraqi soldiers in a roadside bomb far from a polling site, and there were no major attacks reported as US and Iraqi forces clamped down with major security measures around balloting sites.

Hallelujah! Wonderful news! Thank you, God!

[USMCPOP]

"Regardless of which way the vote goes, I suspect that a large number of the people who do not get their wish will follow their historic tendency to resort to violence to try and get their way."

Yes, with their culture and historical tendencies, I think they'll have a hard time, even if they agree to a great extent. They need to fast-forward a few hundred years and get out of the middle ages.

[pleikumud]

“This is all wrong. I said ’no’ to a constitution written by the Americans,” said Jilan Shaker, 22, a laborer who showed up at a polling station in Baghdad’s Azamiyah district polling station in shorts and plastic sandals.

The question is, who has Jilan Shaker been talking with, Billy Klinton, Hillary Klinton, Kennedy, Kerry, Howeird Dean, Pelosi, Schumer, Levin, Boxer, Feinstein, Jesse Jackson, Collins, Snowe, McCain, Biden, Lautenberg, Corzine, Leahy, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NY Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Time, Pravda, Isvestia......?

[Albion Wilde]

This will be a tough time for the terrorists, liberals, and demorats if democracy succeeds. We need to be sensitive to their losses which means a win for representative government.

LOL! They're like the monkeys in the zoo who are bored, so they fling dung and have *ahem* intimate relations dozens of times a day.... but who's keeping them in prison, in a free country? Only their own fear of the responsibilities of adulthood and freedom.

[reagan_fanatic]

Iraq’s deeply divided Shias, Sunnis and Kurds voted under heavy guard on Saturday to decide the fate of a new constitution aimed at establishing democracy after more than two decades of Saddam Hussein’s repressive rule

I thought Saddam took power back in 1968? Nevertheless, congrats to the Iraqi people for taking one of the many baby steps towards democracy.

[Albion Wilde]

[blackie]

"This is a huge victory for the Iraqi people, and a stunning defeat for the terrorists and their allies. It appears that the military actions that coalition and Iraqi forces have carried out over the past two months have been remarkably successful in degrading the terrorists' capabilities."

"President Bush can take great pride in this historic day" ~ Bump!

[anonymoussierra]

[stylin19a]

"...safe again"?

I saw that and wondered when in his 30 years of life did he remember it safe ?

[ncountylee]

Google failure, they are up to their leftist games.

[anonymoussierra]

Yes

[Albion Wilde]

"This is a huge victory for the Iraqi people, and a stunning defeat for the terrorists and their allies. It appears that the military actions that coalition and Iraqi forces have carried out over the past two months have been remarkably successful in degrading the terrorists' capabilities."

Victory ping!

[notfornothing]

I've been thinking about those millions of Iraqis who risked death and how many walked for hours to vote (the roads were closed due to fear of car bombs) and to exercise a freedom many Americas take for granted or simply ignore. I've read accounts of how they jubilantly flashed their 'purple fingers' and it has moved me to tears!

...and then there's the coconuts in this country who can't vote because they have to get to the video store before it closes....

[Albion Wilde]

"Al Qaeda believes that America can be made to run again. They are gravely mistaken. America will not run, and we will not forget our responsibilities." –George W. Bush

Thanks for posting this.

[Krodg]

We need to be sensitive to their losses

You think we should be sensitive to those who pray/prey that our soldiers die??? LOL

[anonymoussierra]

thank you all

[Da Mav]

An interesting and related observation.

Certainly the situation is a lot more complex than body counts but examining casualty reports may give some indication as to the effectiveness of the enemy. And the bottom line is obvious: There were a hell of a lot more Coalition forces killed in the runup to the first election in January than have been killed in the runup to this one. In fact Coalition casualties have almost been cut in half.

Coalition Casualties in Iraq during Pre-Election #1
Nov...141
Dec...077
Jan...127
Total: 345

Coalition Casualties in Iraq during Pre-Election #2
Aug...085
Sep...052
Oct...038 (to date)
Total: 175

Just pointing that out since the media hasn't bothered to figure it out or report it.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[HarleyLady27]

Lets pray that they pass the Constitution and then things might start to settle down...after a while, they can always go back and take that out and insert this, and change things here and there, we did that with our Constitution, and it wasn't easy the first 50 years of our Nation's Birth either...

God Bless the Iraqi's !!!