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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/03/comment-iraq-elections

"The peaceful polling was remarkable and so were the results. All the Islamic parties lost ground, especially that associated with the so-called "Shia firebrand", Moqtada al-Sadr, whose share of the vote went down from 11% to 3%. The principal Sunni Islamic party, the Islamic Party of Iraq, was wiped out.

The only Islamic party to gain ground was the Dawa party of the Shia prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - and even that party dropped the word Islamic from its name. The power of Maliki, who has emerged a stronger leader than expected, is further enhanced by these elections. Now no Islamic parties will be able to control any provinces on their own. The election is thus a big defeat for Iran which had hoped that Shia religious parties would control the south and enable Iran to turn them into a mini Shia republic.

Instead, a new generation of Iraqi politicians is coming forward. Many of them are young and secular. They have lived always in Iraq, not in exile; they are Iraqis with local roots first and foremost - they are not pan-Arabs or pan-Islamists. Nor do they have connections to the US."

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Good story... too bad we aren't hearing much about it here.
 
Keep believing your own hype. stupid white american. Actuals islamists don't believe in democracy. Especially when the U.S. backed government is recording their fingerprints along with their vote.
 
AssHatZombie said:
Keep believing your own hype. stupid white american. Actuals islamists don't believe in democracy. Especially when the U.S. backed government is recording their fingerprints along with their vote.
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LMAO....yes, clearly you are correct. That is why all of those UN observers were there and security was provided by the Iraqi military. Obviously they don't believe in the democracy. Proven by the fact that each of the Isalmist factions lost ground
 
Superfreak said:
LMAO....yes, clearly you are correct. That is why all of those UN observers were there and security was provided by the Iraqi military. Obviously they don't believe in the democracy. Proven by the fact that each of the Isalmist factions lost ground
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Im saying it could be their supporters didn't want to go have their thumbprints and votes for islamic radicals recorded by the state.

Can you comprehend that, senor tinybrain?
 
Superfreak said:
LMAO....yes, clearly you are correct. That is why all of those UN observers were there and security was provided by the Iraqi military. Obviously they don't believe in the democracy. Proven by the fact that each of the Isalmist factions lost ground
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hmm and the religious right lost ground in America as well.
 
AssHatZombie said:
Im saying it could be their supporters didn't want to go have their thumbprints and votes for islamic radicals recorded by the state.

Can you comprehend that, senor tinybrain?
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Yes, that must be it. They didn't vote for fear of the purple ink. Gotcha... good point. Could have sworn they had secret ballots, but obviously you are more in the know.
 
Superfreak said:
Yes, that must be it. They didn't vote for fear of the purple ink. Gotcha... good point. Could have sworn they had secret ballots, but obviously you are more in the know.
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Right. Everything is on the up and up if authority figures say it is. Learn to think for yourself, dipstick.
 
AssHatZombie said:
LMAO...
Your pollyanna viewpoint is equally unfounded.
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You truly are a warped little troll. To quote the articles on the topic is hardly taking a pollyanna type view. You have NOTHING to back up your point of view. I was commenting on articles written on the topic. So do yourself a favor and play in traffic. Darwin is calling you home.
 
You know Asshat, I have to come to realize that you will only ever believe in what is not accepted as the norm. It's good to be objective, especially for issues that there is a credible scientific alternative like climate change driven by sun activity.
But you only seem to want to believe in something if there is an oppurtunity to be the outsider, conspiracy theorist or rebel.
This is just as bad as the opposite of your kind, the safe believers like Onceler who will only believe in something that the majority believe in and have zero objectiveness.

Thinking for yourself doesn't mean taking an automatic reactionary attitude anymore than an automatic progressive attitude.
 
KingCondanomation said:
You know Asshat, I have to come to realize that you will only ever believe in what is not accepted as the norm. It's good to be objective, especially for issues that there is a credible scientific alternative like climate change driven by sun activity.
But you only seem to want to believe in something if there is an oppurtunity to be the outsider, conspiracy theorist or rebel.
This is just as bad as the opposite of your kind, the safe believers like Onceler who will only believe in something that the majority believe in and have zero objectiveness.

Thinking for yourself doesn't mean taking an automatic reactionary attitude anymore than an automatic progressive attitude.
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Nope. I think for myself. Our government lies all the time. This is fact. I beleive they're lying about actual iraq results.

But you continue on in your fog of stupidity. It bothers me little.
 
Superfreak said:
You truly are a warped little troll. To quote the articles on the topic is hardly taking a pollyanna type view. You have NOTHING to back up your point of view. I was commenting on articles written on the topic. So do yourself a favor and play in traffic. Darwin is calling you home.
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Keep believing the lies, fascist koolaid dogma drinker.
 
AssHatZombie said:
Nope. I think for myself. Our government lies all the time. This is fact. I beleive they're lying about actual iraq results.

But you continue on in your fog of stupidity. It bothers me little.
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Correlate the results of the election to the reality then. There has been more talk about America leaving Iraq while there has been fewer acts of demonstrated Islamic extremist behaviour (ie: bombings, violence) in a country that like we, are war-weary. Why shouldn't the more rational parties have done better and the more extremist ones done worse? It fits.
 
KingCondanomation said:
Correlate the results of the election to the reality then. There has been more talk about America leaving Iraq while there has been fewer acts of demonstrated Islamic extremist behaviour (ie: bombings, violence) in a country that like we, are war-weary. Why shouldn't the more rational parties have done better and the more extremist ones done worse? It fits.
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WHy bother with an election then? Damn, you're full on retarded.

Laying low until we leave could be another strategy. Think in a smart way, not a dumb way.
 
AssHatZombie said:
WHy bother with an election then? Damn, you're full on retarded.

Laying low until we leave could be another strategy. Think in a smart way, not a dumb way.
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I suppose they could lay low, they know we are leaving. But we would have been leaving regardless of the outcome of this election, so they had nothing to lose by not voting their true intentions.
 
KingCondanomation said:
I suppose they could lay low, they know we are leaving. But we would have been leaving regardless of the outcome of this election, so they had nothing to lose by not voting their true intentions.
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But what they had to gain by not voting was not having their information and beliefs documented by a puppet government that will still be run by the U.S.
 
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