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To: tejek who wrote (216626)	1/31/2005 10:43:40 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571770

Ted, Not if those unopened polls were in heavily populated Sunni cities and neighborhoods. Quick, Ted! Send Barbara Boxer! Send Jesse Jackson! Voters are being "disinfranchised"! Tenchusatsu

To: tejek who wrote (216626)	2/1/2005 11:55:17 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571770

If Sunnis decide to boycott the polls, that's their perogative, but that means they will have less influence in the future government. If their self-imposed disenfranchisement becomes a problem and turns into violence, then the new Iraqi gov't should squash them and put them in jail. In the U.S., if someone doesn't like that we are a democracy and decides not to vote, that's fine. But if they try to assassinate our President, then they are either killed in the process or prosecuted and put in jail. Same should apply in Iraq.