Iraq - Saddam Wins 100 Percent in Referendum with 100 Percent Turnout - 11,454,638 say yes, 0 say no

Reuters and AFP | October 16, 2002

[MeekOneGOP]

fyi.....post #20.

[SamAdams76]

Of course, Iraq strictly enforces the "no dead can vote" policy. That is, anybody voting for somebody other than Saddam is immediately killed, thus rendering their vote invalid.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Even the Clintons couldn't to that. Well, there's always next time.

[Cultural Jihad]

Bet it makes him feel really important to have defeated NO ONE!! ROFL!

Saddam the dictator likes to call himself 'president' because the idea of democracy is a very powerful one.

[Mopp4]

Iraq - Saddam Wins 100 Percent in Referendum with 100 Percent Turnout - 11,454,638 say yes, 0 say no

I'll bet Gore is really jealous over this ....he was so sure the NOV 2000 results would read "America - Gore wins 100 Percent in election with 100 percent turnout - 274,000,000 say yes, 0 say no.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

HAL9000 wrote: What happened to the 3,052 people who voted 'no' in 1995?

Here's Mark Steyn's answer:

But, around this point, you can't help wondering, ''Why exactly does Saddam Hussein need a campaign song?'' According to the Times, at his last presidential election seven years ago, the old butcher got 99.89 percent of the votes. As the 0.11 percent foolish enough to write in Pat Buchanan have since been killed, you'd have thought Saddam would do even better this time. But who knows? Perhaps there's a Zogby poll with him plummeting to 99.83 percent. Perhaps Dick Morris has some internal numbers showing Iraqi soccer moms want more spending on education and less on anthrax.

So the guy's out there on the stump pressing the flesh. I mean, as opposed to the flesh he presses with the hot pokers down in the basement. His managers have come up with a snappy campaign slogan: ''Yes, Yes To Our Beloved Leader, Saddam Hussein.'' The agency had toyed with ''Four More Decades,'' ''I'm Pro-Saddam And I Vote,'' ''Guns Don't Kill People. Saddam Kills People,'' ''It's Mourning Again In Halabja,'' ''Ask Yourself Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Centuries Ago?'' and ''It's The Dictatorship, Stupid!''

I have to confess to a sneaking admiration for the old mass murderer. What's happening on Tuesday wouldn't pass the smell test in any functioning polity, even New Jersey. Voters will find one question on the ballot--''Do you agree that Saddam Hussein should remain president?"--and will have to tick either "Yes" or "No." They have to write their names on the ballot, and in case they're tempted to put ''John al-Smith'' or ''Jane bin Doe,'' they have to fill them out in the presence of ''officials.'' It's not the kind of election you really need a campaign song for.