"And this here's my impression of Senator Kennedy..."
Posted on 10/16/2005 6:38:28 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl
That would make sense if there were enough Sunni votes to reject the constitution. The problem for the terrorists is the constitution is going to pass.
And since when do Sunni's bomb Sunni's? They bomb Shiites and Kurds. And it is the Shiites and Kurds they need to discourage from voting. It is the Shiites and Kurds who are going to vote in large measure for the constitution.
The one province that will swing the balance has enough Kurds to go for the Constitution. If the Sunnis kept the Kurds from voting in that province the constitution would go down to defeat.
They threatened to bomb and warned Shiites and Kurds they would die in bomb attacks if they went to the polls to vote. Then the Sunnis did not follow through. They made empty threats.
NPR lies.. They think we are as ignorant about what is happening as we were before the INTERNET gave us the truth.
NPR does not know that when they lie we catch them. NPR suffers from the DanRather Syndrome.
Grab a barf bag and check out this article --
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051016/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
The headline liberal news for tomorrow is "Sunnis appear to fall short in Iraq vote". I guess the AP thinks that "Sunnis appear to fall short in Iraq vote" is more important than IRAQIS PASSING A CONSTITUTION and VOTING FOR FREEDOM.
;*) I have a FRiend that constantly quotes your tagline, without ever remembering your screen name.
Well put.
Didn't they, though.
I guess at least they acknowledged there was a vote on the front page. The Albany Times Useless couldn't be bothered, and their editor in chief spends every Saturday writing a column in the opinion section. My favorite (although there have been many) is apologizing for failing to put the Downing Street Memo on the front page for a week. He tries to make the process "transparent" with his column, every week it ends up being a whining liberal pity party for his journalistic elitist sensibilities.
LOL, could that be F Mc? I told her to use it without attribution.
no mattert what the results are MSM will find a way to just crap it down. they just hate anything Bush. The Bush Presidency has done incredible things that would not have been possible uunder anyone else in recent times... incredible things like democracy fires spreading like fire season in california across the middle east.
Yes! As a matter of fact it is! LOL
The terrorists seem to be doing a lot of "standing down" recently.
Perhaps because most of them are dead.
Attacks in Iraq are on a declining trend line. No one seems to have heard from Osama after that earthquake in Pakistan, either...
After Israel.
Great pictures of another historic day!
I am grateful to all who serve our country and all those who have made this possible.
The headlight should be the fact that there does not seem to be strong opposition from Sunni Arabs. In fact, the majority of Sunni's seem to be voting yes.
You have a great memory.. You can even remember things that never happened.
The major forieng policy problem faced by the USA as seen by Richard Nixon in the late 60s and early 70s was Russia and China united and taking on the USA.
That would be a huge problem because Nixon could see the day was coming when China would be a huge industrial power. It was going to be a lot harder to defeat a United China and Soviet Union. They might very well defeat us.
Therefore Nixon decided to try to split the alliance between China and the Soviet Union. Nixon knew that the Chinese were unhappy that the Soviets treated them as junior partners in their alliance, so Nixon decided to treat China as an equal. He succeeded in fermenting trouble between China and the Soviet Union. It made the USA a lot safer. It had zero to do with anyone believing that China was the good communist nation. IT had to do with the stragegy of divide and conquer.
Since China never became a Soviet supply state, that gave Ronald Reagan the ability to spend the Soviet Union into bankruptcy. That could not have been done had the Soviet Union and China united.
There was never any illusion by thinking Americans about what China was and is.
Cool pics!
--saved -- hard drive is getting full, LOL.
Here are some numbers:
The Results indicate YES vote for the Iraqi constitution
The preliminary results from different sources indicate the following:
The nine southern provinces from Basra to Hila voted between 75-95% by yes.
Baghdad region voted by 65-75% yes.
The three northern Kurdish provinces voted by 70-80% yes.
Kurkuk and Diyala voted for 60-65% yes.
Ramadi is gloomy but expected to vote for no.
The birth place of Saddam Tikrit (Salah-aldeen) voted by 75% for no.
The constitution will be rejected if the majority of votes rejected it which is according to the above results is impossible.
The only other way by which it may be rejected is if more than two thirds of the votes in three provinces or more vote for no. This option is very unlikely. Even taking Tikrit votes in account this will need at least another 2 provinces to say no by more than 66%. Even if Ramadi achieved this is not enough. Mosel votes were 643,000 from which until today we got the results of 419,000 ballots counted. Out of this 419,000 there is 75% voted yes. Therefore even if the rest are all no, which is impossible, the final results will not be enough to reject the constitution.
Based on this we can say congratulation for the Iraqis with a big YES for the constitution which is passed.
Over all how nice it is to be free and votes then calculate like the other civilized nations and not 99.999% yes for one person or one family under the barbaric dictatorship regimes.
http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/
How long do we have to wait until the powers to be get it carved up and exporting oil at higher levels? My wife's about to submit part of her meager paycheck (pay cut) to help fund the airline's jet fuel cost adder. What we are seeing is a reverse re-distribution of wealth. This is the closest I've ever felt to being a democrat.
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