Shiite Ticket Now Has BIG LEAD in Iraq Vote. HAPPY, NEOCONS?

[Bluebear]

Show off those purple-fingers, neocons! Happy now? Or will they discover a bunch of "lost" votes under a goat and Allawi will surge back? So we lost 1500 American soldiers, spent 200 BILLION, trained 150,000 Iraqi troops that will be loyal to IRAN.... It's an Ayatollah Sistani tsunami and Iraq will now be a Muslim theocracy as the secular party is running 18% in the polls.... still happy with your election, Bushies?

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was trailing a Shiite ticket with ties to Iran in Iraq's historic election, according to latest returns released Friday. One U.S. soldier was killed and seven wounded in the north, and gunmen seized an Italian journalist in Baghdad.

The United Iraqi Alliance, endorsed by Iraq's top Shiite clerics, captured more than two-thirds of the 3.3 million votes counted so far, the election commission said. The ticket headed by Allawi, a secular Shiite, had about 18 percent � or more than 579,700 votes...

The terror group al-Qaida in Iraq vowed new attacks against military targets in the coming days in an Internet statement posted Friday. The group promised "victories, qualitative operations and the killing of the heads of the infidels and apostates."



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050205/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_050205024211

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. ..

[havocmom]

2. That last bag of ballots will put Allawi over the top

just like in Ohio

[Gloria]

8. Correction, they're not using bags, they're using Sterilite plastic

storage boxes......LOL

[aquart]

3. Well, wasn't it only Shiites who voted?

So it sorta figures.

I wanna know how they knew who they were voting for.

[bigtree]

6. Their clerics told them who to vote for.

[Bluebear]

7. Much like the fundy "voter's guides" here, right?

[burn the bush]

4. finding lost votes under a goat ! Lol

[bigtree]

5. This can only escalate the violence against our troops

as we dig in and try to elevate the unelected Kurdish Sunnis in the new coalition as a wedge against the coming Shia majority government. No way do we want the large oil fields in the Kurdish regions to be controlled by the coming Shia majority. They'll be pushing us to relinquish our control though, possibly setting up the same conflict against the Kurdish Sunnis that existed before. This time it will be almost impossible to hide behind this mantle of 'freedom' and 'democracy' as we attempt to ignore the Shia's mandate to power.

[killbotfactory]

9. F'n amateur's didn't rig it?

They screwed up everything else, might as well give de facto control to Iran.

[mordarlar]

10. i prefer Sistani to Allawi. Allawi is a messed up individual.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Those NeoCon assholes are fucking up EVERYTHING! n/t

[radar]

12. Story I found thru Corrente blog....

...Seems to think our "glorious leader" will still benefit.


What They’re Not Telling You About the “Election”
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000193.php#more

Antonia Juhasz, a Foreign Policy in Focus scholar, authored a piece just before the “election” that sheds light on a topic that has lost attention amidst the recent fanfare concerning the polls in Iraq.
Oil.
I think it’s worth including much of her story here, as it fits well with today’s topic of things most folks aren’t being told by the bringers of democracy to the heart of the Middle East.
On Dec. 22, 2004, Iraqi Finance Minister Abdel Mahdi told a handful of reporters and industry insiders at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that Iraq wants to issue a new oil law that would open Iraq's national oil company to private foreign investment. As Mahdi explained: "So I think this is very promising to the American investors and to American enterprise, certainly to oil companies."
In other words, Mahdi is proposing to privatize Iraq's oil and put it into American corporate hands....


Jamail: "Iraq's Oil for Guaranteed Political Power"
http://corrente.blogspot.com/
Wondering what the resurrection of Ahmed Chalabi was all about? Wondering why anybody atall voted in iWaq? Wondering why the Sunni vote was suppressed and the Shia vote encouraged? And how does all of this fit with Iran? Dahr Jamail has the skinny, puts the pieces together, and now it all begins to make sense.

[Bluebear]

13. OK as long as oil companies and Halliburton still benefit

:crazy:

[Stop_the_War]

14. Better Sistani than a U.S.-puppet.........n/t

[Bluebear]

15. I don't think this will be the Bushbots liking!

:crazy:

[radfringe]

16. Time to send in ROVE "the fixer"

those "blue" ink-stained fingers will be turning into "red" ink-stains soon

Meanwhile -- I guess after the (s)election we may have to go back into Iraq and re-liberate them again and again until bush* gets his boy into office

Might be easier just to declare bush* the winner, claim a mandate and screw the Iraqi's too