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To: Joe NYC who wrote (217183)	2/4/2005 1:12:30 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578134

>So the cheering in media and here, among other places was for failure. It's not cheering -- you're confusing cheering with an "I told you so" attitude, which is perfectly appropriate. -Z

To: Joe NYC who wrote (217183)	2/4/2005 1:38:57 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578134

The latest task at hand was the election. Failure of this election has been a wet dream of all Bush haters. The only ones who could make the failure happen were you allies at hand, the head choppers... "The turnout was the thing. By the time all the votes are counted — no thanks to all those international monitors, most of whom were outside the country — it could sink well below the much-vaunted 72 per cent that was making Fox News anchors walking Viagra ads on Sunday. It's already dropped to 57 per cent. At that rate, we can expect the final number to slip by on a news crawl just as Michael Jackson beams up to the Mother Ship. But liberty from what? Doesn't it come with independence? These questions were too weighty for the networks as they showed countless Iraqis giving the purple finger to the insurgents — and to the U.S. occupiers. Countless because there was no census to determine exactly how many people were eligible to vote. As for those registered, they were recognized only by their U.N. oil-for-food ration cards issued under the Saddam regime. Ironic considering that the people who condemn that program as corrupt are the very same people praising voter registration based on it. But didn't the Iraqis, at least those within camera range, look happy? We didn't see voters beyond walking distance of the barricaded hotels where the big U.S. news guns were holed up. We had to imagine how joyously they must have danced in the happy campgrounds around the flattened Falluja or in the Abu Ghraib S&M club. Don't get me wrong: It's heartening to see laughing faces in Baghdad. But we've seen this before, in April 2003, when the statue of Saddam was toppled. Had the cameras pulled back then for a wide shot, more people would have understood that the image was not quite as pictured." thestar.com