Posted on 01/30/2005 4:56:39 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, January 30th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Joseph Biden, D-Del.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Iraqi politicians Ahmed Chalabi, Adnan Pachachi and Jalal Talabani; Iraqi security officials Mowaffak Al-Rubaie and Barham Salih; Feisal Istrabadi, Iraqi deputy permanent representative to the United Nations; Ken Pollack, Brookings Institution; retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong and retired Army Maj. Gen. James "Spider" Marks; former Coalition Provisional Authority advisers Brett McGurk and Peter Khalil; June Chwa-Detroit and Jeremy Copeland-Maryland, Iraq Out-of-Country Voting Program.
You will be surprised at the depths these dogs will sink to try and talk about ONLY the negative. The MSM is dead, buried and so irrelevant.
5200 polling places and only 9 of them attacked suggests that the number of "insurgents" has been drastically decreased!
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/030/wash/Rice_says_Iraqi_election_excee:.shtml
Rice says Iraqi election exceeds expectations
By Anne Gearan, Associated Press, 1/30/2005 08:39
WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the Iraq elections are ''going better than expected'' Sunday, despite conflicting reports about the extent of voter turnout in areas plagued by intimidation and violence.
''Every indication is that the election in Iraq is going better than expected,'' Rice said on ABC's ''This Week.''
Plus, the only deaths from suicide bombers were the bombers themselves. Their victims were injured.
One of the telling things I heard said by an Iraqi was that they also have a right not to vote..Saddam used to make everyone vote..for him, the only candidate.
May God shield the voters and those who protect them.
One other stat I heard was that one polling station was ushering in 25,000 voters an hour.
I heard a voter in this country (an ex-pat) say when he put his ballot in the box that "I put my heart in that box".
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Keep me in touch with that. I trust your judgement.
Polls in Iraq are now officially closed. Putting the official end to the first free and democratic elections in Iraq.
Brian Williams is on saying can't really say it's a 72% turnout. It's not verifiable and the feeling in Iraq is one of unease. People voted at random which some say takes the legitimacy out of the election.
It opened with Brian Williams giving as bad a report as possible. Zarqawi isn't as upbeat about his chances as Williams is. Disgraceful.
Was that not just beyond awful.
I don't trust any news man that wears more eye makeup than I do.
Sunny day helped turnout.
Can't tell yet how turnout is going.
Huge security required for elections.
Early turnout was huge dissappointment.
As negative as you could possibly make it.
She was NEVER up for living in the White House.
I don't have the exact numbers, but recall something like about 20 people killed by about 9 suicide bombers. About 29 dead people all together.
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