CNN Breaking: US Puppet Alawi Finished in Third

[nostamj]

Shi'ite majority wins big.

no link, listening to CNN in the background

[sleipnir]

1. Hardly a surprise here.

Though, I thought they might Diebold the election, but that'd be too friggin' obvious.

[nodictators]

3. Guess again. Allawi had a surprise gain in the 2-week-long vote count

As I recall:

Early reports had 8 million ballots, about the same as the "official" count of 8.5 million. The Shia-dominated ticket had more than 3 million votes. The Allawi list had less than 600,000 votes.

Now, with 400 ballot boxes reportedly thrown out and 300 other ballot boxes recounted, we see tha Allawi more than doubled his count while the Shia-dominated list gained only about 33%.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4261035.stm

Shia parties win Iraqi election

A Shia-dominated coalition won nearly half of the 8.5 million votes cast in Iraq's election, poll officials say.

The Kurdish coalition came second with nearly 2.2 million votes, while the party of interim PM Iyad Allawi was third with nearly 1.2 million.

[sleipnir]

7. Curiouser and curiouser

we shall see what happens next.

[LiberallyInclined]

9. it's a lot easier to double a 600,00 vote count...

than it is to increase a 3-million vote count by 33%...

really-
do the math.

nothing nefarious here...if they were faking the vote for allawi, he would have won not finished a distant third.

:eyes:

[LostInAnomie]

2. No matter who wins, they will all whore for the US.

They are the 51st state.

[leftchick]

4. Not Mentioned. The Other US Puppet Thug seems to be a lock....

Iraqi Finance Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shi'ite official who is a leading contender to be the next prime minister, flashes the victory sign after the results of the country's national elections were announced in Baghdad, February 13, 2005. The United Iraqi Alliance, which won Iraq (news - web sites)'s first election since Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s overthrow, insists that one of its candidates -- probably Mahdi-- be appointed as prime minister. Mahdi stands in front of a poster of the head of the Shi'ite alliance, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters


...You didn't think they would place all their bets on just one did ya?

[Emboldened Chimp]

10. Why does everybody think that's the victory sign?

It's peace, dammit!

[spanone]

5. ...and welcome back to the fold Mr. Chalabi.

We found out you are as big a crook as George W. so you must be our friend.

[Renew Deal]

6. Did the Kurds finish second?

[momknowsbest]

8. shocker!

the US puppet loses!