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2005-01-28 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-01-28 12:42:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If the Sunnis do Boycott, they deserve what they are going to get. But then again pay back is a bitch and I can not think of a better bunch of assholes to get force fed revenge than the Iraqi Sunnis..

Posted by Long Hair Republican 2005-01-28 2:15:36 AM|| 2005-01-28 2:15:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 You blog paraplegics morons what is the need to mention debka as a sorce of information? Is your pro
I, have a Russian relative just emmigrated to Izra or your, I belive in the superioty of well info by a retired ISF electrician.
Your site is PATHETIC >>>>>FRED>

Posted by YOUUOR SITE IS PATHETIC 2005-01-28 4:01:49 AM|| 2005-01-28 4:01:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 *snicker*

Posted by .com 2005-01-28 5:02:22 AM|| 2005-01-28 5:02:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ..i guess he *arted as he was publishing?

Posted by PePe La Phew 2005-01-28 5:25:36 AM|| 2005-01-28 5:25:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 #2- now with new Izra superioty!!

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-01-28 7:33:08 AM|| 2005-01-28 7:33:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "You blog paraplegics morons"

I think I am be-ink insalted hear.

Posted by TomAnon 2005-01-28 8:02:16 AM|| 2005-01-28 8:02:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 and it sounds like you drank the whole case of vodka your russian relative sent you.

Posted by Jarhead 2005-01-28 8:23:45 AM|| 2005-01-28 8:23:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I am Engalish speak! 2 days Aligers! ISF is OWG!

Posted by Manuel 2005-01-28 8:25:24 AM|| 2005-01-28 8:25:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Target aquired. Proton torpedos locked on. Standing by.......

Posted by Steve 2005-01-28 8:54:24 AM|| 2005-01-28 8:54:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 The union of the two principal lists, which will help them carry districts in which each faction is fragmentary, like Iraqâs second largest town of Mosul and certain quarters of Baghdad.

But the national election is NOT by district, its nationwide proportional representation.

2. Major concessions by Sistani in Kirkuk, where he endorsed the transfer of tens of thousands of Kurdish voters into the city. Quietly underway at this moment is the largest demographic transformation in Iraq since the war began, an abrupt reversal of the population displacement conducted by Saddam Hussein. Sunni families are being pushed out of Kirkuk to the Sunni Triangle and replaced by incoming Kurds. Turkomen, Assyrians and Yazdis gnash their teeth but have not the power to interfere in the Kurdish takeover of the mixed city.

Transfering Kurdish votes to Kirkuk will impact local council outcome there - doesnt effect national result, since the same voters are just shifted around.

3. Another key Sistani concession was his consent to local elections taking place in Kurdish regions for a Kurdish national assembly at the same time as the general election. In return, the Kurdish leaders have granted Sistani a powerful tool of government, a promise to join his Unified Iraqi Bloc

Yes, thats a big concession, but does NOTHING to explain the national outcome.

Take this with even more salt than usual. While its possible many non-Kurds will vote for the Kurdish parties, id be very surprised if they do that well. OTOH, I expect the Iraqi communist party to do much better than suggested above.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-01-28 9:55:12 AM|| 2005-01-28 9:55:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 "You blog paraplegics morons"

I love it. I can see the headlines now.
"MSM KILLED BY BLOG PARAPLEGICS"

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-01-28 10:01:55 AM|| 2005-01-28 10:01:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 This guy makes mucky seem like Shakespeare.

Posted by Tibor 2005-01-28 10:25:59 AM|| 2005-01-28 10:25:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 LOL @ #2

You get my nomination for Anti-Poet Laureate 2005 . Before you post , learn to spell .

Posted by MacNails 2005-01-28 10:34:34 AM|| 2005-01-28 10:34:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 All your blog are belong to us!

Posted by Dar 2005-01-28 10:37:14 AM|| 2005-01-28 10:37:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Don't annoy the pathetic, kid. Go somewheres else.

Posted by mojo 2005-01-28 10:50:28 AM|| 2005-01-28 10:50:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Um, YSIP, what is my pro I? And what do you mean by well info?

Ah, forget it. Dawn take you and be stone to you.

Posted by Korora 2005-01-28 10:56:22 AM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2005-01-28 10:56:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Tibor: This guy makes mucky seem like Shakespeare.

Dude, mucky *is* Shakespeare. I always click on mucky's postings because his pronouncements are as cryptic as Greenspan's, but more fun to read.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-01-28 11:34:36 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-01-28 11:34:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 Did you see that all three American TV news anchors have gone to Iraq for the elections? As reported on CBS last night, exit polling will show that John Kerry will win by an overwhelming majority.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2005-01-28 11:39:23 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-01-28 11:39:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 Oh, wow. Look's like #2's just graduated from the English As An Eighteenth Language program. Musta needed it to get his ISF electrician's union card.

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-28 11:47:27 AM|| 2005-01-28 11:47:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 chuck - kinda silly of them, dont you think? IIUC the IRaqis will be using paper ballots, which will take awhile to count. Also, IIUC, the counting will be done centrally, not at each polling place and being called in, like is done here. There really WONT be any returns for several days, and I would consider exit polls (yes, I know you were joking) worthless here. At most theyll be able to report turnout.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-01-28 1:12:59 PM|| 2005-01-28 1:12:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 You blog paraplegics morons what is the need to..

Your POST is pathetic.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-28 1:48:36 PM|| 2005-01-28 1:48:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 has murat been hitting the hookah extra hard today?

Posted by Jarhead 2005-01-28 3:38:38 PM|| 2005-01-28 3:38:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 I think that I tried buying some memory from #2 at Fry's.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-01-28 4:15:49 PM|| 2005-01-28 4:15:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 11A5S - One son starting working at a Frys. His main complaint? "Dad, most of these guys are really stupid." Me ... "Son, most people are stupid... deal with it. Oh, and, by the way, most are earning more than you are."

I will wait a few days before teasing him again.

Posted by 3dc 2005-01-28 4:44:52 PM|| 2005-01-28 4:44:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 I expect the Iraqi communist party to do much better than suggested above.

I hope you are wrong. lh.

Well it didn't take long for one bad element to rear its evil head once the lid's come off the garbage can. The Communist Party is evidently the oldest party in Iraq, which I had not realized until today. Saddam forced the party to go under ground while he was in power.The Communist Party's slogan is:"A free country and a happy people." It makes me want to throw up. And I thought there was a danger posed by a Shiite theocracy - ha, ha -communism, just what Iraq needs in its government -like a cancer on the body politic.

The communists have 275 candidates on its slate with over 90 being women. Sad.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1263114.htm

Posted by 2xstandard 2005-01-28 5:08:40 PM|| 2005-01-28 5:08:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 actually latest poll I saw says Iraqi Communist Party will not do all that well. But theyre actually rather moderate - they are firmly supportive of democracy and elections, and very opposed to the insurgency. They are also firmly secularist and moderately socialist. They apparently learned quite a bit in their years of persecution by Saddam. Iraq could do far worse than them. They have already had a minister in the Allawi govt, and he served responsibly, IIUC.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-01-28 5:31:21 PM|| 2005-01-28 5:31:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 If a larger percentage of the Iraqi electorate vote - how will the MSM spin it?

It will somehow turn into a Sunni tragedy story. Never mind the relative peaceful 80% of the country that were suppressed by the Sunnis for the past three decades finally get to participate in democratic election - lets pay attention to the people that hate Bush. Hating Bush is the true story for the MSM.

BTW - Ted Kennedy is an idiot.

Posted by JP 2005-01-28 9:00:14 PM|| 2005-01-28 9:00:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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