Iraqi Election~~~~~ Live thread.

All of us | Jan 29 2005 | Various Freepers

[Dog]

It is now 3 am in Iraq the polls will be opening in the next few hours as the world watches and hold's it breath. Iraq is about to undertake a historic vote.

Lets wish them well....... please post all comments and election photos to this thread.

[Trippin]

The fascists and bigots at DU is plumbing new depths of depravity. They make me sick, but frankly with each passing day the left's ranting is becoming more and more like distant background noise. I hardly hear it anymore.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!!!

[smonk]

not to mention the fact that they are spitting on the more than 1,000 american soldiers that have died delivering democracy to iraq.

[scoastie]

Agree...I think that by voting, the people are telling the murderers that their time is over...and they do not want to be slaves anymore...

[BigSkyFreeper]

Iraqi's who are going out to vote, want to be on the winning side of history. :)

[B-Chan]

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[faithincowboys]

What are you talking about? They love to do that... To them, that's a badge of honor.

[dawn53]

CNN News Caption: "HELP! HELP! I'M BEING RERPRESSED! COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERANT IN THE SYSTEM!"

LOL! My teenager's favorite line from Monty Python.

[goldstategop]

As Amir Taheri points out in an article written today, the point in building coalitions and democratic institutions in Iraq is to get the nation's new leaders in the habit of getting things done through political horse-trading and compromise. Which would be a welcome departure from the Arab custom of settling political disputes through violence.

Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."

[TexKat]

Iraqi men show their inked fingers after voting in the country's national elections, at al-Batool polling station in eastern Baghdad, January 30, 2005. Insurgents threatening an election day bloodbath killed at least 12 people on Sunday in a string of bombings and mortar attacks on polling stations in Iraq's first multi-party ballot in half a century. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

An Iraqi policeman helps a blind woman on her way to a polling station in Baghdad, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. Iraqis voted Sunday in their country's first free election in a half-century, defying threats of violence from insurgents vowing to sabotage the balloting. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)

[SeaBiscuit]

"The Iraqi people are saying they are not afraid to walk around with a blue finger showing they voted in spite of the threats. Remarkable!"

Yes it is. What's also remarkable, is that GWB may have envisioned this very thing, Iraqi's sticking out their voting blue fingers in defiance of tyranny and terrorists.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The 'rat bastards were cheering every time the number of American casualties went up.

[kcvl]

I wonder what stupid things their losing leader will say on "meet the depressed" today? lol!

[BCrago66]

After the commercial MSNBC will have a segment on bloggers. Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine - http://www.buzzmachine.com/ - posted that he will be on MSNBC covering the blog beat at 6AM EST, but maybe he's starting early.

[Jet Jaguar]

I hope this precious kid is alive and well and witnessing this moment.

[smonk]

--- They love to do that... To them, that's a badge of honor. ---

doesn't make it any less reprehensible. maybe we should send this thread to britt hume, except I would hate to get DU any attention at all.

[BCrago66]

No Jarvis. Just a hippy, as Cartman would say.

[Jet Jaguar]

ping

[faithincowboys]

Indeed.

You've got to see MSNBC. They are donating a huge chunk of airtime to a translator telling us what Al Jazeera is saying. What the Hell? MSNBC is truly a mess. Basically MSNBC has become Al Jazeera. Real pathetic.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting that bit of history!