Posted on 10/25/2005 9:51:00 AM PDT by caveat emptor
BAGHDAD, Oct. 25 -- Iraqi election officials announced Tuesday that voters approved a new constitution in a nationwide referendum 10 days ago, based on a final tally of votes that had been delayed for more than a week while officials recounted ballots and checked for possible irregularities.
In other news, the U.S. military also said that two Marines died last Friday when the vehicle in which they were traveling was attacked by a roadside bomb, bringing to 1,999 the number of U.S. military fatalities sustained since the March 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, according to tallies by the Associated Press and Reuters. CNN said the number of U.S. dead had reached the symbolic milestone of 2,000, which is expected to focus renewed attention on U.S. operations here.
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Was this quoted from CBS on election night 2004?
Everybody ignores ours..The Court reads it, but only from the standpoint of determining what they need to argue to get around it.
"No registration required for this one, but why bother... deeply divided...brink of civil war...suspicions that the results were fixed...anecdotal evidence of vote tampering..."
Sounds just like us. Things may be worse in Iraq than I thought.
Add to that my professor telling my social psychology class today that Iraqis don't want us there, don't need us, don't know what democracy is, and don't want democracy.
Ask him whether he would have argued in 1860 that black slaves don't want to be freed , don't need freedom, don't know what freedom is, and don't want it.
Tell him it's interesting how little the mainstream of Democratic Party thought has changed since then. Outside of the change of ethnic groups, your prof basically has the same viewpoint as Stephen Douglas did during the 1860 presidential debates.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=amqz7dZlEx3w&refer=top_world_news
"Iraqui consitution approved by 79% of voters"
WTG, purple fingered voters!! :-)
Well, you see, all that matter is that a republican is president. If a democrat was president, my prof. would never say something like that. He knows what what he is saying is a lie, but since it fits his political agenda, he'll say it. It really is a joke. He claims to be a scientitst, but makes these wild claims without any proof. Oh wait, I forgot, when he was in China during the democratic uprisings, he asked some of his stuendts if they knew what democracy was. He claims they did not know, as since they did not, then OBVIOUSLY, the Iraqis do not.
It took until I read all the way down to the second line of the second paragraph to find the daily body count. The WaPo must be slipping slowly but surely over to our way of seeing things...
NOT!
Another mouthful of ashes for the ratmedia.
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