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Whew! We’ve been spending so much time getting the new site ready, we haven’t posted much in a while… sorry. More good stuff to follow.
Iraq Election Surprising Success
So as I troll for more and more news the only thing that can be said to sum up the election over in Iraq is SURPRISING success. It went SO WELL that event the those for it (even praying for it) are surprised. The general response was: "Uh, yeah it went… really well…" I even noticed the media tried raising the death toll by including the suicide bombers. 35 people were killed by 9 suicide bombers. Which is tradgic but its rediculous to have headlines that read 44 Die In Elections. And while any death is bad, lets put this in perspective: 8,000,000 people voted in long lines of people (often several people wide) and with guns, motars, and bombs strapped to their chests the terrorists were able to kill 35. That's 0.0004375%. In contrast, drunk drivers in the US killed 46.5 people during the same day. Another thing of note: the turnout for the election is estimated at 60%. At first glance this might not seem HUGE, but it is. It puts the Iraqi Election at historic levels for more stable democracies: WASHINGTON Jan 15, 2005 — Deep divisions over the war in Iraq and intense voter registration drives pushed the 2004 presidential election turnout to 60.7 percent, the highest level since 1968, the Center for the Study of the American Electorate said Friday. — ABC News And how many people were threatening your life at the polls this last election? OK other than P-Diddy.
More News From The Front
Our embedded correspondent Don has his take on the Election: oh my gosh, i have a few minutes to myself! i don't konw what to do! the elections are over and they were a whopping success despite whatever the bullcrap faggot media may tell you. sorry, i'm very bitter since the only new i ever hear about is the 'bad stuff we do'. well they dont have the pictures of me and lots of other soldiers handing out meals to iraqi police and candy to kids. they also don't tell you that over 60% of the population voted (at least in our area), which is fantastic considering their lives are threatened for it. we pulled down several posters that said if you vote, the streets will be lined with your blood. we did have a few bad things happen, you heard abotu the suicide bomber at quaniquin that killed 5 iraqi police. that bomber had a little boy with with him in the car. some ieds went off, but so far i haven't heard one thing about an american getting hurt. i wasn't able to contact anyone considering i was running about 19 hours a day during this part of history. so sorry. also i'm sorry that i am putting out mass email since i despise it myself, but i don't have time for anything else. actually, i'm on duty right now. but i am able to do other things while on this duty as long as i have a radio. actually, its just like working at the fire department! but i am safe. i was scared a few times, but ok. i'll tell you the iraqi police and iraqi army handled most of this themselves. it is a step for them taking control of their own country, which is positive. they are some brave guys. they stand around at checkpoints all the time with no body armor and get shot at. well, that's it. i will try to write some of you back personally,sorry if i can't get to you all. don All men die, some men never really live.
Iraq Democracy Overcomes Terror
This is a statement that I think sums up not only the current election process in Iraq, but the entire Iraq conflict: Samir Hassan, 32, who lost his leg in a car bomb blast last year, said as he waited to vote in Baghdad: "I would have crawled here if I had to. I don't want terrorists to kill other Iraqis like they tried to kill me." — Reuters 1/30/05