Arabs Say Iraq Vote Gives Democracy a Bad Name (Reuters Agrees)

Reuters ^ | 28 January 2005 | Tom Perry

[cockroach_magoo]

"With this example, all the Arab extremists will say to us: 'You democrats, go to hell, because you haven't been able to solve our problems with your democracy and elections'," said Manna, who left Syria in 1978 as a political exile."

"The influence of the elections for us as democrats is disastrous,"


The whole point is that you're not supposed to know what these people are saying.

A reporter could write an article called "Tom Perry Found Fondling Goats at Local Farm," and include in the article an unintelligible quote from the local farmer that has nothing to do with the story. The MSM figures that it doesn't matter. They expect their idiot readers to read and retain the headline without caring about or questioning the supporting details.

[Stultis]

Some more from Tom Perry, in this case channeling and rebroadcasting the perfidy of The Arab League, here.

[SeaBiscuit]

"They're not going to let me cheat and surpress the people and keep them in the 11th century."

That and your graphic is Perfect!!

[SandRat]

"They're coming for me Next!"Say the other Arab Nations "GW said so in his inauguration speech!"

[SeaBiscuit]

LOL!!! Let Freedom Ring!!!!

[spunkets]

Yea, it is over the top. They're doing the whining for the thugs.

"Some Iraqi Sunni Arab groups are boycotting the election, saying it cannot be free and fair because of the U.S. military presence and daily bloodshed in Sunni heartlands.

WHaaaa. We're not free to run our bloody campaign to harass and intimidate any more. Also the piece has the democrats being disenfranchised again.

[montag813]

the prospect of a Sunni Arab boycott will undermine the poll

Why? The sunnis are a small minority. According to the numbers I have seen, this would be like Homosexuals sitting out the 2004 elections. Big freakin deal.

[Valin]

However Reuters offers this as a news piece

Why am I not suprised.

[Valin]

I know they're French, but as to who actually owns them I can't say.

[Jorge]

"The influence of the elections for us as democrats is disastrous," Syrian human rights activist Haytham Manna told Reuters from Paris.

Syria is such a great example of Democracy right? This has to be a joke.

[Tax Government]

Saudi academic Madawi al-Rasheed said the Abu Ghraib scandal coupled with air strikes on Falluja, which the U.S. military said was a stronghold for Sunni insurgents, had lost America the support of its natural Arab allies in pushing for democracy.

I am waiting for Reuters to run an informative, useful retrospective on military uniforms in Hitler's SS.

[GaryMontana]

I believe that arab muslims give humanity a bad name.

[patriciaruth]

Fri Jan 28, 2005 08:52 AM ET By Tom Perry

Neener! Neener!

Guess your crystal ball isn't working on the Muslim holy day, Msr. Tom Perrier....

[Valin]

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I've got more if you want.

[Valin]

"Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy."
Aristotle

"They who judge by the group are peawits"
Sgt. Killrain
The Killer Angels

[Billthedrill]

One of the funniest articles I've read on the topic. Reuters here has found a group of disaffected "democratists" to interview who manage to declare the election a disaster before it even happened. Note the bolded words:

Arab human rights activists say the Iraqi election is deeply flawed and will give democracy a bad name. They say violence and the prospect of a Sunni Arab boycott will undermine the poll.

In short, they haven't a clue what really happened and are pronouncing it a failure out of...well, why, really? Reuters itself has a political bias so steep they wouldn't recognize a straight story if one happened along, and these spokespeople didn't include a single, solitary Iraqi voter who was actually there. Not one. This may be a lot of things, but "reporting" it is not.

In point of fact, the activists quoted have a vested interest in the election failing as well - it threatens their own very lucrative and long-standing con game. It is these people whose mighty efforts have resulted in a democratic government in precisely no country in the area, not one, not ever. Nor will they. That would require giving up the suites in Paris and the adulation of such of the international community as Reuters represents. They deserve one another.

[Stultis]

In point of fact, the activists quoted have a vested interest in the election failing as well

Excellent point.