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Iraqi parliamentary elections an overwhelming success!

Voice of Reason | 16.12.2005 10:04

A higher than expected turnout of around 67 per cent of people turned out to vote in Iraq's parliamentary elections. So many in fact that in some areas they ran out of ballot papers and had to order more.

Iraq last night took another crucial step towards real democracy as 15 million brave voters risked bomb and bullet to elect a real government. So many turned out that overwhelmed officials had to send out for extra ballot papers.

Significantly, the poll was boosted by Sunnis who boycotted the last election — and found themselves completely sidelined as a result. They learned a vital lesson — that democracy cannot survive unless people want it to.

The Sunni turnout shows that all Iraqi people want the new administration to work. They want allied troops to leave, just as much as the West wants to hand control to a viable authority. If it works, as everyone now hopes, British and American troops could start pulling out next year.

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Real democracy

16.12.2005 11:17

I will resist commenting on whether such elections can ever result in 'real' democracy. I will however be intersted to see if the elections result in the Iraqi people getting their oil back or being able to re-negotiate the lucrative infrastructure contracts let to foreign owned multi-nationals. We will have to wait and see how 'democratic' the new system turns out ot be.

Gulliver

Sounds familliar

16.12.2005 12:28

All this sounds awfully familliar....

 http://www.globalresearch.ca/art...es/GR0502A.html

I love the sound of choppers landing on the embassy roof in the morning.

Tet

Erm.. this looks.. erm .. familiar..

16.12.2005 15:34



Voice Of Reason's post is a word for word lift from today's SUN Editorial-



"IRAQ last night took another crucial step towards real democracy as 15million brave voters risked bomb and bullet to elect a real government.
So many turned out that overwhelmed officials had to send out for extra ballot papers.

Significantly, the poll was boosted by Sunnis who boycotted the last election — and found themselves completely sidelined as a result.

They learned a vital lesson — that democracy cannot survive unless people want it to.

The Sunni turnout shows that all Iraqi people want the new administration to work.

They want allied troops to leave, just as much as the West wants to hand control to a viable authority.

If it works, as everyone now hopes, British and American troops could start pulling out next year. "

Watcher

Corporate Repost

16.12.2005 17:21

This is a straight copy and paste from today's Sun:
 http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,31-2005570575,00.html

Fuck the corporate media.

Voice of Murdoch