[Aussie Dasher]

Can't beat an eyewitness account...

[msnimje]

“did you hear that many polling places in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad were empty yesterday. People are fed up and chose not to vote.”

This is hearsay at best and a "loser's limp" at best.

I refuse to be pessimistic about the future of Iraq. I refuse to believe the Iraqi people are too stupid to form a thriving democracy. I refuse to believe that almost 40 years of torture and misery have not lit the fire of freedom in the belly of most Iraqis.

[hsalaw]

"Iyad Allawi was on Iraqi TV complaining vigorously of voter fraud and threatening to tell every diplomat in every embassy the vote was crooked."

Sounds like John F'n Kerry in Ohio. Iraq IS becoming a democracy!

[Shermy]

"Can't beat an eyewitness account..."

Not impressed.

[Marine_Uncle]

It sure is going to be interesting to see just how many Iraqi at this point are going to see that their hope is in sharing power for the good of all. Regardless of what list yields the next PM and President, one thing is for sure, or at seems apparent to me. There are going to be a number of leaders from all the parties saying they must work together. They are not anywhere as stupid as a lot of folks purtend them to be. They know the stakes are critically high. The rather poor performance of the majority role this past year has made many of them weary of just voting for a majority Shia leader. I am not convinced this early in the vote count that Allawi is still out of the race.
And people like him that will be around regardless of the outcome are going to be influencial in perhaps keeping things at an even strain. That is at least my hope. Time will tell us soon enough. Give it three weeks.

[calex59]

“did you hear that many polling places in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad were empty yesterday. People are fed up and chose not to vote.”

This is the same crap they said in the last election. Exactly the same statement. I wish I could find the article and post it but I can't but I know this is what the lame stream media said about the last Iraqi election. Back then of course it was the Sunnis who wouldn't vote so of course the whole think would collapse. Now, some UNNAMED(again) informant, overheard in the street no less, says some people didn't vote! Well, since they had ONLY 70 percent turnout that leaves 30 percent who didn't vote, a blowout in anyone's language. How a journalists can say there was a 70 percent turnout and they had to keep the polls open an extra hour and in the next breath try to paint the elections as a failure is beyond me.

How anyone with an IQ over 2 could believe them is even more strange.

The media has done everything they can think of to try to take people's thoughts away from this election, blaming Bush for using legal spy methods, to just plain ignoring the elections.

All this hype about the NSA is simply a ruse to push the elections and Bush's success into the background and to try to, once again, snatch defeat from victory.

The more Bush wins, the harder they try to discredit him, failing of course, especially now that he is fighting back.

[RJL]

FNC's Dana Lewis: It was all positive on election day in Iraq. After all how should we, could we, report it any differently.

I think Dana worked very hard to find a way to report the very successful Iraqi elections negatively.

[MNJohnnie]

Seen when is rumor and hearsay "NEWS". Funny how the FACTS do not match the rumors Dana is "reporting".