Iraq results delayed due to "irregularities."

[purduejake]

Sorry, no link. I just heard it on MSNBC. Last time I heard, the people with ties to Iran were winning most of the elections. I just thought it is interesting that the results are now being delayed. Hmmm, I wonder what's happening?!?

[w13rd0]

1. BushCo is busy...

...helping the insurgents with their recruitment drive.

[Bouncy Ball]

2. Wow so you mean

we attacked Iraq because they had all those big bad WMDs and were a big huge threat to us, and we killed thousands of Iraqis and almost 2000 US troops now and totally fucked up their country, only to find out they didn't have WMDs and were no threat to us, in fact, could hardly threaten their neighbors and NOW we've held an "election" in Iraq in which a group with strong ties to a strict Islamic-based government in Iran has probably won?

Weeeeeee!!!! WOW, Iraq just keeps getting BETTER and BETTER!

What a GREAT idea this was!

[purduejake]

3. Yes, and just imagine what $300 billion could have done for us...

I can't help but think about stuff like funding universities instead of driving prices up while reducing grants and loans... or about funding stem cell, cancer, and HIV research... or building hundreds of thousands of windmills around the country to reduce our dependence on foreign oil... or nevermind.

WTF? :argh:

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. somebody is getting creative withthe counts

you cannot have sistani or Sadr win.... no way, no how...

[Stirk]

5. I imagine a bunch of Republican aides are flying over there now.

Y'know- to "protest" the vote count.

[radfringe]

6. I think the "blue" ink on fingers

is going to be changed to "red"

it was previously reported that alot of Allawi's support is coming from "overseas" votes -- wouldn't be surprised if bushies are making sure the "overseas" vote goes to Allawi, afterall what's a little tampering between 'friends' if it results in a 'democratic' Iraq...

[izzie]

7. Well who really thought Bush's guy would win?

I am sure they are trying to fudge the vote right now to make him win.

[radfringe]

8. link to story

Recount Delays Iraq Final Election Results
Wed Feb 9, 6:30 PM ET Middle East - AP
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20050209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq


BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi officials said Wednesday they must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes because of various discrepancies, delaying final results from the landmark national elections. Hundreds — perhaps thousands — of other ballots were declared invalid because of alleged tampering.

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Officials had promised final results from the elections by Thursday, the end of the Iraqi work week. On Wednesday, however, election commission spokesman Farid Ayar said the deadline would not be met because of the recount.

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The most recent figures showed a coalition of Kurdish parties in second place behind a Shiite-dominated ticket endorsed by Iraq (news - web sites)'s most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The ticket of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite, was a distant third.

Allegations of voting irregularities, especially around the tense northern city of Mosul, have complicated the count. Some leading Sunni Arab and Christian politicians alleged that thousands of their supporters were denied the right to vote.

Election officials blamed the problems in the Mosul area on security, which prevented fewer than a third of the planned 330 polling centers from opening. Gunmen seized some ballot boxes, officials said.