Iraqi Freedom

[Montgomery Burns]

Over 70% turn out to vote in Iraq election

Some booths had to stay open for an extra hour because of the high voter turnout.

Very little violence.

So many Sunnis voted that they ran out of ballots in a few areas.

This election appears on track to record more votes than any other parliamentary election in an Arab country.

This is another major blow to the terrorists.

Let's take a look at the Top 10 Reactions from the most popular leftwing blog on the Internet; those "progressives" from the "reality-based community" at The Daily Kos:

Number Ten: …t’s precisely what BushCo is trying to do. Distract us from the violence and the deaths, of both U.S. and coalition forces and the Iraqi people, by staging these elections and giving us these photo ops.

Number Nine: I won’t believe the numbers anyway. After the last election took 3 weeks to finalise the votes, I didn’t trust those results either. Earlier this week, on Air America, I heard about a truck of ballots being intercepted on it’s way from Iran. With Iran & the U.S. both wanting a desired outcome, I don’t think it matters what the Iraqis want. Either Iran or the U.S. is going to win this election, votes be damned.

Number Eight: I want to know if Diebold had machines set up to count the votes.

Number Seven: The paradigm I operate under is that the forces Bush has marshaled to allow him to use my money to terrorize a foreign population and get American soldiers killed and maimed are the exact same ones which are staging the election and will oversee not only the results but the actions of the elected.

Number Six: If the Iraqis are successful in their democratic endeavor, perhaps they could send consultants to Ohio and Florida.

Number Five: more iraqis are voting than americans voted in the last pres election...stupid f***ing americans...good for the iraqis..maybe america needs a good and bloody civil war to remember what democracy is about

Number Four: I don’t believe a f***ing word of what the New York Times tells me about election day in Iraq. Remember last time? The anecdotes of people walking miles to get to the polls? Reports of unexpectedly high Sunni turnout? The dawn of democracy? Remember the Repugs pointing to those reports and waving purple fingers at us? Lies and propaganda, in the mold of Judith Miller.

Number Three: This is just theater. All completely meaningless, and woe to the suckers who buy into this BS. These elections are nothing more than a prop for the bush thugs. No election that was initiated, designed, engineered, and carried out by a foreign occupation power has any legitimacy, here or elsewhere. None. Period. If Uzbekistan invaded the US, toppled the government, installed its hand-picked puppets, then ran through the motions of several rounds of voting, would the regime that resulted have any legitimacy whatsoever? Of course not. It would be laughed at. This so-called election is utter bullsh**, nothing more than photo ops and PR props.

Number Two: Has any reporter asked anyone in the administration why the f*** Iraq has had even 1 election if the country can’t even employ 60% of the people?! If 50 people are dying a day. Can’t one a**hole just ask the f***ing question?!?

Number One: I had a realization today while driving to work listening to all the talking heads blather on about Iraqis voting.

I. DON’T. GIVE. A. SH**. ABOUT. THIS.

Was it worth half a trillion of our (children’s) wealth and 2140 of our young people? 30,000 to 100,000 civilian "collateral damage"? F NO.

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And The Daily Kos is - believe it or not - saner than the wildly popular Democratic Underground website (which isn't a blog).....

[crazymf]

I have always maintained that time will tell how things go in Iraq and that it needed doing. The public is terminally impatient and will always give up before the job is done if a strong leader isn't present to do it for them.

I wish Canada had just one.

[newbie]

Was it worth half a trillion of our (children’s) wealth and 2140 of our young people? 30,000 to 100,000 civilian "collateral damage"?  F NO.

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Wow, we finally agree on something.

[Montgomery Burns]

Was it worth half a trillion of our (children’s) wealth and 2140 of our young people? 30,000 to 100,000 civilian "collateral damage"?  F NO.

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Wow, we finally agree on something.

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Why am I not surprised that Newbie agrees with the Daily Kos "progressives" from the "reality-based community?

But it's just those brown-skinned Iraqis, right Newbie? They are subhuman second-class people who deserve nothing better than to live under the boot of one of the worse massmurderers of the 20th and 21st century, right?

But I must confess; I agree with part of one sentence in the Top 10 Reactions....

#4:

I don’t believe a f***ing word of what the New York Times tells me...

I don't believe a word of the NY Times, either.