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To: one_less who wrote (52599)	12/16/2005 4:32:10 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 360966

Pardon my density, but are you saying that: -- the Iraq elections are a great success? -- the NYTimes is hiding this grand success? My understanding is that the RESULTS of the election will not be known for some time. Do you have other information? Are you saying that ANY elections (straight, crooked, whatever) were held at all is a great triumph? That any result, whatever it is, will be something for everyone in America to feel good about? Or something else? Please reveal the gem in the election or your communication, underneath the rough-cutness, so that all of us can feel good about something. Namaste! Jim

To: one_less who wrote (52599)	12/16/2005 5:18:37 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 360966

The "success" of the Iraqi elections as you put it, is not measured by the fact that "alotta" people voted. But it would be just like a republican to say so, before the votes have been counted and before any actual governing has occurred. And to suggest that any election occurring under the occupation of a foreign army is somehow a sign of progress is to forget our own history. All that W and his criminal cohorts, here and in Iraq, have really accomplished, at the expense of thousands of innocent lives, is to push Iraq into the arms of Iran. Have you seen the stories about truckloads of fake ballots coming from Iran? Have you heard the public statements from the sunnis indicating that the insurgency will not end as long as the US is in Iraq? Then and only then will the "success" of any election be revealed. Any "fair and balanced" news to the contrary is pure bullshit fed to hungry americans who can't deal with the truth.