High Turnout In Iraqi Election

[danceyogamom]

Yeah...and Gold & all the pseuber-libs are on the spin whilst you & your cuntservatives are also missing the whole picture

THIS election should teach Amerikkka a lesson in democracy!!!
If only 30% of the population showed up to the polls, Amerikkka should still learn a lesson from that

Here it is you have people literally risking their lives to vote, yet in this cuntry you seldom get more than half the population to the polls, and i've got news for y'all...that 50% of Amerikkklans who don't vote are almost all "liberals"

GW mobilized his constituents the last time out, which is why he won by four-plus million, but you'd have to go back thirty years to see a real asskicking---http://www.thefreedictionary.com/_/v...1972-Large.png

There is a *whole lot* out there that should teach Americans a lesson ... We consistently take our way of life for granted. You don't have to go very far to find countries that can't even count on basic living conditions - much less voting rights.

I wonder how many Americans would vote if they were suddenly faced with having to fetch and purify their own water? Take away our basic comforts, what we take for granted, and you may finally have a population angry enough to pay attention and affect change.

[Gold9472]

I don't care how much you hate Bush, this is a historic day for the Iraqis. I don't know how it will all turn out but the fact that 60% to 67% of eligible voters voted is a huge step.


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11:06 am PST, 30 January 2005

Counting has begun in the Iraqi general election which officials are hailing as a great success.


A higher-than-expected 60 percent of those eligible to vote are said to have turned out, in spite of suicide bombings and mortar strikes at polling stations.



The Iraqi Electoral Commission has downgraded its initial estimate of a 72 per cent turnout to about 60 per cent, but says with death threats against anyone who voted, that is still high.



And it says in some Shi'ite areas turnout was as high as 90 per cent.



Candidates from the Shi'ite majority, which was oppressed under the deposed president, Saddam Hussein, are expected to dominate the new assembly.



Sunni Muslim groups, privileged under Hussein, had sworn to boycott the poll.



Meanwhile, at least 33 people have been killed in attacks on election day, mostly in suicide bombings and mortar strikes at polling stations.



Al Qaeda has posted a statement on an Islamist Website claiming its suicide bombers were involved in many of the attacks.



Thousands of Iraqis also voted abroad, in 14 countries.



Organisers say almost 66 per cent of the 280,000 expatriate Iraqis registered have voted.

Your story is a little misleading...

"Iraqi officials said there were 14.2 million eligible voters for the election in Iraq and another 280,000 expatriates registered to vote worldwide."

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/me.../31/iraq.main/

Based on your story, I thought only 280,000 voted...

14.2 Million voted...

[Gold9472]

Sorry... I rarely read everything anymore... I skim...