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72% Iraqi Turnout Stuns U.S. Press
NewsMax.com ^
| 1/30/05
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 01/30/2005 7:57:33 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
many of whom had predicted HOPED that terrorists would succeed in sabotaging the U.S.- backed referendum.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:04:48 AM PST
by
socal_parrot
(parrot's pick...http://rightandwrong.typepad.com/)
To: OldFriend
The left is bitterly disappointed at this UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS. I'm wondering...
If John EffinKerry had been elected on November 2nd, 2004 (shuddder)...and Inagurated last week (rrretch)...would the Iraqi elections have been held as scheduled?
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:04:50 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Is it merely a coincidence that ALLAH and SATAN both have five letters in their names?)
To: kattracks
"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." Nothing new here is there? The dimwits at Newsweek get things wrong in the U.S., so why should they get things right elsewhere?
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:04:59 AM PST
by
Enterprise
("Dance with the Devil by the Pale Moonlight" - Islam compels you!)
To: kattracks
This is a repeat of last November's election in the US:
MSM gets a hard-on from bogus exit polling and thinks Kerry's going to win, suffers huge disappointment when Bush clinches clear victory (both popular vote AND electoral college).
MSM gets a hard-on from bogus threats and thinks terrorists will turn the election into a bloody quagmire, suffers huge disappointment when Iraqi voter turn out is larger than that in the US.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:04:59 AM PST
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: kattracks
"I have to say, it's going a lot better than I thought hoped it would," Rod Nordland, Newsweek's Baghdad bureau chief, said SundayI fixed the misquote.
To: bad company
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:06:00 AM PST
by
socal_parrot
(parrot's pick...http://rightandwrong.typepad.com/)
To: kattracks
"Curses! Foiled again!
To: Republican Red
...but then Friday heard Fox war reporter Steve Harrigan. I consider him very reliable. His opinion was that Sunday would be a "bloodbath". He said elections would be a complete failure and many people would die.I saw that too; the guy looked downright depressed about the whole situation. I'd like to see his response now.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:07:43 AM PST
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: kattracks
Preliminary reports that turnout in Sunday's Iraq election has topped 70 percent have surprised American reporters, many of whom had predicted were hoping that terrorists would succeed in sabotaging the U.S.- backed referendum. There. I fixed it.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:07:54 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen, ignorance and stupidity.)
To: Republican Red
That was an easy mistake for people to make because they didn't understand how the miltiary works.
At any given time, only a very small number of troops actually are deployed on patrols. The rest are resting, eating, kicking back, etc.
But for a short period like this, every swinging Richard is going to be armed and about. I'm guessing the presence of U.S./Iraqi troops likely was at least 5 times higher than normal, and in places the insurgents did not expect. That likely threw off a whole lot of their plans.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:08:12 AM PST
by
XJarhead
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
If John EffinKerry had been elected on November 2nd, 2004 (shuddder)...and Inagurated last week (rrretch)...would the Iraqi elections have been held as scheduled?
Not just no, but hell no!
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:08:15 AM PST
by
rdb3
(The wife asked how I slept last night. I said, "How do I know? I was asleep!")
To: socal_parrot
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:08:17 AM PST
by
bad company
(if guns cause crime, then keyboards cause spelling mistakes)
To: kattracks
Big deal, Saddam had 99.97% turnout.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:08:49 AM PST
by
petercooper
(Liberalism = Idealism; Conservatism = Realism)
To: kattracks
let's welcome iraq in the free world...
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:08:51 AM PST
by
Condi4Prez
(W stands for....What a Great PRESIDENT!!!)
To: kattracks
Looks like high turn out except the Sunnis.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:09:26 AM PST
by
Ranger
To: OldFriend
A most pervasive sense of satisfaction comes with the known results of the election so far. Knowing the hazards of participation in voting (and not just because it is raining), the Iraqis turned out at a level unknown in this country, to cast votes for what were essentially mystery candidates, in the face of great threat of bodily harm and in an atmosphere of forboding, triumphantly and with dignity. Sure, some people died because of some threats being carried out, but many more went even in the face of those threats.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:09:28 AM PST
by
alloysteel
("Master of the painfully obvious.....")
To: kattracks
Now supporters of the War can say that the opposition "HATES DEMOCRACY".
To: kattracks
Meanwhile, in liberal bastions around America, NYC, Boston, Hollywood, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, as well as points north of the U.S. border, Prozac sales, that saw a jump in November, have again spiked to their post election high numbers. Pharmacy stocks of Prozac are diminishing rapidly. Sale of similar drugs are sharply up in France and Germany as well.
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:09:55 AM PST
by
BluH2o
To: My Favorite Headache
the U.S. needs to adopt the ink policy if you ask me I can just see a run at Walmart for rubber index fingers, by the case load, and after the election I can envision dumpster loads of blue tipped rubber thumbs. BTW, the choice of blue is probably appropriate - to keep the blue states honest.
To: Condi4Prez
Here in the USA we have red states and blue states...in Iraq...purple fingers and clean fingers...
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posted on
01/30/2005 8:11:03 AM PST
by
antivenom
(If your not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!!!)
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