And what if the Iraqi people - freely and fairly - elected Saddam Hussein?

[bobweaver]

[DrWeird]

1. Wouldn't happen.

The US would just say somebody else really won.

[grasswire]

2. I've been wondering about that...

...it's the only name they may think of, not being allowed to know the names of most of the candidates!

[Sanity Claws]

3. Bush would claim

that the exit polls showed that the election was rigged and therefore Saddam really did not win. Also, the voting machines were accessible to the internet so that outsiders could hack into them. Obviously Saddam's Karl Rove hacked in.

I wonder if he could keep a straight face.

[NoStinkinBadges]

4. What a thought.

[old blue]

I'm sure the tabulators have already come up with a plan for that...

whereby a vote for Hussein will be counted instead as a vote for Bush. Hey, they don't even have to change the source code!

[Solly Mack]

5. wow...a free and fair election (mind drifts...happy clouds dance about)

oh sorry....was I snoring? Cause I know I was dreaming.

[tjdee]

6. Allawi is going to win, silly you!

Allawi is already the winner, convenient enough for the Bushies.
It's already set up, just like Hamid Karzai.

I would be SHOCKED beyond belief if that didn't come to pass.

[theresistance]

7. There was the possibility that SH could have won

free elections in the 1980's when the countries infrastructure was built up by oil wealth and before it was all destroyed by Gulf war, sanctions, invasion, occupation...