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To: denizen48 who wrote (6610)	2/5/2005 2:54:24 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361217

Read my last post for the correct figures. The original were reported by FOX News... It's a little back up on the posts..

To: denizen48 who wrote (6610)	2/5/2005 2:55:06 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 361217

The initial reports said that the count would be over in a few days. WHAT IS GOING ON? Anyone watching for those democracy-haters from Diebold? After all, they have the contract from Bush to put ATMs all through Iraq so they must be slithering on the ground there somewhere. It's interesting to see corporate media's continuing take on the elections. Even though the lead in is the following headline, the body of the article illustrates mass confusion, great unhappiness at the occupation and a rise in the power of the cleric REGARDLESS of what they say in public. PLUS. Why doesn't corporate media talk much about the Kurds? They apparently think they voted for independence from Iraq. Isn't that a strange, unwelcome but completely anticipated development of this election? "Sunnis Reconsider Their Role Leaders express willingness to play a role in writing new Iraqi constitution." washingtonpost.com "... But the agenda of the Supreme Council, in particular, sits uneasily with many Sunni leaders, who fear the group is beholden to neighboring Iran and who recoil at its often explicitly sectarian rhetoric. (Often, Sunni Arabs are reluctant to identify themselves as such, framing their words in nationalist rather than religious terms.) In Baratha mosque, loyal to the Supreme Council, the prayer leader on Friday ridiculed the Association of Muslim Scholars and compared its brand of Islam to "Saddam Hussein's Islam." Samarrai and others said they were already worried by other statements of candidates on the Sistani-backed list, who began jockeying for positions in the government even before the election was held. Their biggest concerns: that a Shiite militia loyal to the Supreme Council would enter the government's fledgling security forces and that the process of weeding out former Baathists would be stepped up...."