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2004-11-22 Iraq-Jordan
Iraq election may yet be postponed: Arab ministers
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Posted by Seafarious 2004-11-22 3:27:23 PM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 When I was in high school, I read a book about the Marsh Arabs called "People of the Reeds" by Gavin Maxwell. In it he said that one of the greatest taboos for these people was to "break wind in public." The embarassment for having done so was so great that the offender would often have to move away to avoid the shame. That being the case, the net result of this meeting should be that most of the Arab participants should just move away.
Posted by RWV 2004-11-22 4:16:01 PM||   2004-11-22 4:16:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Violence and boycotts could yet stop promised Iraqi elections going ahead on time, Arab ministers said, despite Baghdad's confident assertion the landmark vote would be held on January 30.

WTF business is it of theirs to say when elections in Iraq should be held?
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-22 4:21:57 PM||   2004-11-22 4:21:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Cause once those elections are held they gotta splain to their own folk why they don't get to vote in real elections. That's why tose elections will be held on time.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-22 4:31:00 PM||   2004-11-22 4:31:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I had to read at least 8 reports to get an indication of WTF this conference is about. The best I could find was supporting the political process in Iraq. Just a UN sponsored gabfest. Nothing of interest. Move along.
Posted by phil_b 2004-11-22 4:33:23 PM||   2004-11-22 4:33:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Asking the counsel of Arab ministers about another nation's electoral process is like asking the editors of The Nation and Mother Jones to come up with a target price for Google stock.

How do you say STFU in arabic?
Posted by lex 2004-11-22 4:34:36 PM||   2004-11-22 4:34:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 How do you say STFU in arabic?

With a sword, you scurvy infidel dog.
Posted by Seafarious  2004-11-22 4:42:36 PM||   2004-11-22 4:42:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Isn't this the conference the French wanted Zarqawi to attend?
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-22 4:44:40 PM||   2004-11-22 4:44:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is indeed rich, creamy nuttiness from the usual suspects. Great post, seafarious.

Let's see if a reality translation can make sense of this.

A group of Arab dictatorships who backed the deposed genocidal regime of a neighbor state sit in judgement on when and under what conditions that state can conduct it's first-ever free elections.

The group cites terrorist violence backed by some of their number and perpetrated by their favored Iraqi minority as a reason to delay the vote.

Nope -- this makes no effing sense!

And WTF is this b.s. about the "credibility" of the elections depending on a minority that (1) boycotts the voting (2) generates the mayhem that complicates the situation? I guess you'd have to be a UN bureaucrat, Brookings scholar, or major media pundit to make any sense of that.
Posted by Verlaine 2004-11-22 4:48:08 PM||   2004-11-22 4:48:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Verlaine you left off one, A total wanker.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-11-22 4:57:53 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-11-22 4:57:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Good post, good fisking.

I curse their moustaches. And I mean a really good curse, too, not just "Darn" or "Drat".

Posted by Matt 2004-11-22 5:16:36 PM||   2004-11-22 5:16:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 
We are worried that the conditions could prevent the realisation of that objective
Translation: We're sending as many jihadis and as much money as we can to incite those "conditions" and assure they continue.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-11-22 7:43:24 PM||   2004-11-22 7:43:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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