72% Iraqi Turnout Stuns U.S. Press

NewsMax.com ^ | 1/30/05 | Carl Limbacher

[kattracks]

[DustyMoment]

. . . Also, the U.S. needs to adopt the ink policy . . . .

Good point. I also agree with the ink policy. Really cuts down on the number of dead and non-existant who vote for Dems.

[kattracks]

[xm177e2]

Pat Buchanan says he can't understand why a Sunni would vote.

I understand why people would think this. Sunnis know they are going to lose. If they vote, they might get a slightly bigger share of the power pie, but they will be conferring legitimacy on the elections. From a Sunni point of view, not voting fits with their terrorist insurgency better. If they really think the terrorist insurgency is their best long-term strategy, then boycotting the elections (and attacking polling places) is the right thing to do. If they didn't think terrorism was a good strategy, they wouldn't still be terrorists.

Now it's up to the Shi'ites to convince the Sunnis to knock it off.

[Redwood71]

kattracks,

Could these folks that predicted gloom and doom be the same people that were conducting the exit polls during the 2004 election? I beleve none of what I hear and only half of what I see. Well.....I see....again.

Red

[RJL]

What a wonderful picture, it's a keeper.

[Aquinasfan]

"I have to say, it's going a lot better than I thought it would," Rod Nordland, Newsweek's Baghdad bureau chief, said Sunday as the numbers came in. "The attacks by the insurgents, while they're numerous, haven't reached that kind of critical threshold where it really kept everybody home," he told the Fox News Channel.

Why did the MSM misjudge the Iraqi people? They're atheists or agnostics. They fear death, which is to be avoided at all costs. They will sacrifice any cause or principle to escape death, and can't imagine people acting otherwise.

[medscribe]

As President Reagan said, "given the freedom to choose, people will choose freedom." The elitist liberals who make up the mainstream media will NEVER understand that concept.

[America's Resolve]

the press and the DemonRat Party

You're being redundant :)

[DustyMoment]

Rather and Jennings are in Iraq to report on the low turnout. Are they Pissed?

No. You don't understand liberal accounting methods. As much as 85% of the country was expected to vote so, by liberal accounting practices, the turnout was low because 13% of the expected voter turnout didn't show at the polls.

That makes it a low voter turnout in their minds and "proves" once again that Bush was wrong.

[wildbill]

I guess Iraqi voters are braver than all the Dems who claim to have been prevented from voting in the US because of intimidation.

The Dems are such partisan POS.

[America's Resolve]

but many more went even in the face of those threats.

Yuppers. This not only was a referendum on the Iraqi future, it also showed Al Queda, Zarqawi etc, the limits of terrorism. Compared to the turnout, the terrorism was like a flea bite on an elephant, virtually nonexistent.

All the killing they've done has only stiffened resistance to them and their butchering ways.

[Happy2BMe]

""The attacks by the insurgents, while they're numerous . ."

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That is a damn flat-out lie! There have been almost ZERO attacks - less than five. And the attackers were the ones who lost - each time.

DAMN THAT MSM PROPAGANDA! The liberals just HATE the fact that the sacrifices and dreaful loss of life and suffering of our U.S. Armed Forces have been so successful. They HATE it!

HOORAY for our troops on the ground in Iraq!

[xone]

Only 70% turnout? Another miserable failure and defeat for freedom.

[Aquinasfan]

Eleanor Clift saying Iraq is unwinnable and we can maybe hope for a Vietnam type exit at best.

8-) Thanks. I needed that.

[YankeeMagic]

I love that Reagan quote!

[P.O.E.]

LOL

[smonk]

John Kerry was staggeringly wrong, huh? "George Bush doesn't have a plan to win the peace". Idiot. The peace was just won.

[TheGunny]

I would like to see that quote, i just cant hear Steve saying those things about the elections. On the other hand, I suppose it would be very difficult to not become a pessimist given all of the horrible things he has seen, the very worst of man kind.

[kattracks]