Iraq sElection PHOTOS that bush* doesn't want YOU to see....

[diamond14]

An Iraqi boy jumps over a crater after a mortar fell close to a polling station in Baghdad. Insurgents unleashed a wave of bloody attacks on Iraq's historic election, with suicide bombings and mortar strikes at polling stations across the country.(AFP/Karim Sahib)



Iraqi election workers await voters at a polling station in Mosul, Iraq on election day, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)




An Iraqi man gets help from a U.S. Army medic after he was shot in the face by an insurgent near a polling station in Mosul, Iraq on election day, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. He was rushed to a local hospital. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)




Iraqi Army soldier casts his ballot in national election at the polling station in Khan Bani Sa'ad between Baghdad and Baqubaon January 30, 2005.REUTERS/Nikola Solic



An Iraqi police officer and an U.S. soldier argue on collecting remains of the suicide bomber after a suicide attack at a polling station when a bomber blew up himself, one policeman and two Iraqi soldiers, in Baghdad, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)




Iraqi police examine the scene after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a polling station in Baghdad January 30, 2005. Insurgents bent on wrecking Iraq (news - web sites)'s historic election killed two people in a string of bomb and mortar attacks across the country Sunday soon after voting began in the first multi-party ballot in half a century. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz

[Bouncy Ball]

1. And yet, the bushbots consider today to be a SUCCESS???

I'd truly hate to see what they consider to be a disaster.

[Kerrytravelers]

3. Oh, come on.. what's a few bombs blowing up?

The Iraqis outide Iraq, you know, the ones that lent their voices to *'s invasion, they were able to vote.

What's wrong? :eyes:

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Maybe . . .

KURO via Google

[diamond14]

5. this is your 5000 post....congratulations...I also feel that the sElection

was a complete farce...AND I hold bushites responsible for the carnage....there are likely AT LEAST 10 people injured for every person killed, which would put the injured at around 400-500 Iraqis...who will NEVER heal given the horror of their medical care...

the whole sElection was a bush* sham...bushites sent Iraqis to their DEATHS in a meaningless public relations ploy, just like bushites send OUR young soldiers to be CANNON FODDER...

[Bouncy Ball]

8. thank you and I totally agree.

(Man I hit 5000 fast. I'm a WEE bit addicted, aren't I?)

[MeDeMax]

2. very chilling pics

I sincerely hope the election and what follows from it produces better days for the Iraqis, our (coalition) soldiers and the Iraqi citizens have paid a very high price for the events of the last 20 months.

Neither had a choice in the matter.

[Rapcw]

6. Freedom is on the march! n/t

[meisje]

7. It could have been worse

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Oh well damn THAT makes me feel SO much better!

Whew! Glad to know it.

:eyes:

You've been a big ol' apologist for this sham of an "election" all day, haven't you?

[Name removed]

10. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Bouncy Ball]

12. HA!

I reply to people when they reply to my threads. There's something wrong with that? I happen to hate it when I write out a big long response to something someone has written or I ask them a question for clarification and they NEVER post anything else in the thread. That's called hit and run and I don't do that.

Oh it's pretty obvious what side you are on. No you are an apologist because everything you've been saying has been "oh it's not so bad!" Tell that to the Iraqis who were killed today. Oh wait, you can't.

Tell that to the Iraqis who have no water or electricity and who are watching their children die slow, painful, PREVENTABLE deaths from dehydration and malnutrition.

There's NOTHING about this war that's "not so bad."

[meisje]

13. Show me the quote where I said that, You Can't!!!!

If you're going to accuse me of something, at least have your facts straight!

Oh, It's ok to remove your foot from your mouth now.

[Bouncy Ball]

14. Oh it could be worse!!!

You know, there could have been like HUNDREDS of Iraqis killed today instead of 44! Hey freedom's on the march!

I noticed you didn't deny anything else I said in that post. That's telling.

[meisje]

15. there could have been like HUNDREDS of Iraqis killed today instead of 44!

Is that your wet dream? Troops, Iraqis, all dead so you can claim Bush a failure. Good luck with all that!

BTW I'm on the side of hope! I hope we get the fuck out of that country and I hope the Iraqis can get there country back, someday. I could care less what happens to Bush.

[Bouncy Ball]

16. **I** wasn't saying there could have been hundreds dead

I was putting that in context of your little "coulda been worse" comment.

Imagine that your mother or father or spouse or child was killed today, in the sham election. And someone said "Hey! Coulda been worse!" You'd probably want to smack them silly.

So just imagine how incredibly arrogant and asshole-ish it sounds for you to say that.

[Tinoire]

11. What a sham. What a shame! - Al-Jazeera reports

Confusion surrounds Iraq poll turnout
Sunday 30 January 2005, 23:14 Makka Time, 20:14 GMT


It will take some time for the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq to release accurate figures on turnout

(snip)

Empty centres

By contrast, heavily fortified polling centres were deserted and streets empty as Iraqis in the Sunni Muslim city of Samarra stayed home on Sunday, too frightened or angry to vote in the election.

"Nobody came. People were too afraid," Madafar Zeki, in charge of a polling centre in Samarra, said.

According to preliminary figures provided by a joint US and Iraqi taskforce that safeguarded the vote, fewer than 1400 people cast ballots in the city of 200,000.

The figure includes votes from soldiers and police, most of whom were recruited from the Shia south.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B49A6A7B-9FE7-4C65-BA06-11461071FEAA.htm

===

AMS critical of Iraq elections
By Lawrence Smallman

Sunday 30 January 2005, 23:42 Makka Time, 20:42 GMT

Iraq's influential Association of Muslim Scholars has told Aljazeera that the low turnout by Sunni Arabs in elections was due to a lack of real choice and military occupation.


AMS: There was no real choice for those Iraqis who did vote

In an interview broadcast before polling stations closed on Sunday, Muhammad al-Kubaysi said low turnout in places such as Baghdad, Baquba and Samarra could have been prevented if there had been more time to create a genuine election.

"The voter goes to the polling stations not knowing who he is voting for in the first place. There are more than 7700 candidates, and I challenge any Iraqi voter to name more than half a dozen."

He also criticised the huge number of groups on voting lists in which it was virtually impossible to know who was standing for election and what the candidate's background was.

"Their names have not been announced but have been kept secret ... elections should never have been held under these present circumstances," he said.

"Even 80% of Iraqis living abroad in complete safety refused to register their names (to vote). This shows that the low turnout in many areas is not a security problem. Rather, it demonstrates a growing Iraqi awareness that these elections are indeed an American and not Iraqi initiative", al-Kubaysi said.

(snip)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F1149ACC-43EE-4BA6-AD8A-AC9D62290514.htm