MSNBC: "8 million Iraqi's cast votes today"...1.5 million out of country..

[ElsewheresDaughter]

so that leaves 6.5 million in country who voted today. so the population of iraq is 25 million....is this what bushco is calling a success? and is it a mandate as bush the bushies are claiming?

if you as me i'de call it a total failure!

through the looking glass :crazy:

[burythehatchet]

1. I believe I heard the MSM number as 18MM reg voters

not that it means anything coming from the MSM

[GR]

7. No I Think It's 14 Million...The 18 Million Might Included Expats...

not sure

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. 14 milion eligible "predicted up to 8 million to vote....

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/jan...

<snip>
Iraqi officials had predicted that up to eight million of 14 million eligible voters - just over 57 percent - will turn out for Sunday's election to choose a National Assembly and governing councils in the 18 provinces

[aquart]

2. % Sunni? % Shia? % Kurd?

[AlCzervik]

3. i think the population of Iraq is more like 25 million with 14 million

elg. voters. 55mil is closer to the population Iran.

[bluestateguy]

4. Having ex-pats vote is a creative way to inflate the turnout numbers

Someday we'll learn the truth about the real number of people who turned out to vote. It may not be for a couple of years, and it may be reported only on page B6 of some obscure small market newspaper or in an academic journal, but we'll find out.

[thecorster]

6. you got it bluestateguy

couldn't have said it better myself.

[K-W]

15. Oh its much deeper than that.

Ex pat communities are more likely to support US occupation too. Thier percentage of the vote is way more than thier population warrents.

[GR]

5. There Were 14 Million Eligible To Vote....

So 6.5 million is 46% but not sure that the 14 million included expats or not...

[ananda]

9. wow

That's a pretty significant result... though I doubt if the Sunnis feel represented.

I wonder whether Bush's self-styled assessement of the election as a great success represents a mandate for the US troops to go home.

Is there any other justifiable reason for being there?

Sue

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. keyword "Eligible"...that doesn't mean the registered or voted

[BlueEyedSon]

8. Iraq population = 25 million

[da_chimperor]

11. Yeah, I was just about to say the same n/t

[malaise]

13. Any figure they put out is a lie

These people have no credibility. The Iraqis are already laughing at figures put out by their own fraudelent leaders. They have to lie because they want to change the constitution - let the looting of Iraqi resources begin.

[da_chimperor]

14. Uhhh, put out by who? What people? Huh?

We're talking statistics now. Do you have another figure to dispute the 25 million figure? I've seen numbers between 22 and 25 million from 1996 and 2002, but to my knowledge all these numbers are estimates.

[malaise]

16. I was referring to MSMs figures

about voter turn out. The numbers I have on the Iraqi population suggest closer to 40 million but I don't have the article with the source at home so I can't argue with your population numbers...today.

[da_chimperor]

17. Every single source i've found says it's in the 22-25 million range.

Encyclopedia Britannia says 24 million, for example.
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?tocId=9368167&query=iraq&ct=

[ElsewheresDaughter]

18. even if it is quoted at 18 million there's something wrong with that.....

because more than half of Iraq's popultion is under the age of 15 ...more than half to young to vote....25M - 18M = 7M less than half the population...i'm not good with math but :crazy:

even if it 14M still doesn't jive with the demographics

WHO | Potential impact of conflict on health in Iraq
... Almost half of Iraq's total population of 24.5 million are children. UN agencies estimate that one out of eight children dies before the age of five; ...
www.who.int/features/2003/iraq/briefings/iraq_briefing_note/en/index2.html

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. half of that 25M are children under age 15 ...voting half pop. 12.5M....

so how can 14M or 18 M vote count be right?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

12. thanks......i fixed the typo

[DS1]

19. Of course, nobody is talking about who was winning.

I think 100% of all voting Shias are gonna call "Bullshit" tomorrow.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. UNICEF & WHO: more than half of Iraqis pop. are under the age of 15

so how the fuck can bush claim even 14 million voted??? never mind fucking 18 million???

so that makes the "8" million more plausible then 18 M


WHO | Potential impact of conflict on health in Iraq
... Almost half of Iraq's total population of 24.5 million are children. UN agencies
estimate that one out of eight children dies before the age of five; ...
www.who.int/features/2003/iraq/briefings/iraq_briefing_note/en/index2.html

[malaise]

23. The MSM reporter

in Iraq was saying that the voting figures being put out in Iraq and outside of Iraq were not credible. I'll wait for Robert Fisk's (or other credible sources) rather than buy this bull. The truth is that it hardly matters - it will be chaos as usual tomorrow.