U.S. Soldiers going around asking people why they're not voting

[Sandpiper]

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As polls opened across the country, early signs showed a poor turnout of voters in Mosul. US soldiers were seen driving around city blocks asking why residents were not voting.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/674D4BC3-BDA3-41AF-9D40-B80D79F812F9.htm


Democracy indeed.

[Rex]

1. Iraqi's know a rigged election when they see it.

They watched what happened here in the U.S.

[DrWeird]

2. Didn't Saddam do the same thing?

nt

[Cocoa]

3. handing out teddy bears too

[Menshevik]

4. are they phone banking too? n/t

[mediaman007]

9. As soon as they turn the phones on again.

Then just wait until the Iraqis get a piece of that selling by phone.

[signmike]

5. "Why ain't ya eatin' yer lunch?"

query from various schoolyard thugs after having arms pounded to pulp and the lunch money removed...x(

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. That's like what the Soviets did in the Baltic states

only they told people that if they didn't vote, they wouldn't get a ration card. The vote had only one option on it: "I want Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia to join the Soviet Union."

Or there was the Salvadoran election of 1984, when the range of candidates ran from right-wing to outright fascist, and the government told people that anyone who didn't vote would be considered a guerilla and liable to be shot on the spot.

[DulceDecorum]

7. But -- but -- but -- the Soviets

COUNTED the votes.
ALL of them.

Even in El Salvador, they counted the ALL votes.
And they had a paper trail as well.

[Cronus Protagonist]

8. I wonder why they don't vote?

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=194


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[Ms. Clio]

10. I saw a photo reportedly from Fallujah

A lot of men lined up inside barbed wire--they couldn't leave that line if they wanted to.

If the truth ever comes out, we may find out that people were not just asked, but forced to "vote."