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Unread 30 Jan 2005, 20:55   #1
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So, these Iraqi elections then

What happened to the massive wave of violence expected?

Have they ran out of suicide idiots?


Will a 60% turnout be enough to convince Sunni's that the election was fair or will they just bitch that they aren't represented (since they dont have a very high voter turnout in their areas) .
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

What are you talking about?

The sunni's are quite a small proportion of the country anyway, they'd never get the representation they wanted. Especially when the main sunni parties were boycotting it.

This election really won't stop any of the violence though.
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

Well it depends on wether or not you consider 20% of the populace to be small or not.

By boycotting it they will probably get bugger all rep as opposed to '20%'
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

Bet Bush wins it

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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

the election is easily the most important part of what is happening in iraq, but, ultimately, it will mean nothing, as the terrorists are sunni's who know that they are in the minority now, so can't have it their own way as they have for the last x years, and people from outside the country who are not eligible to vote
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

there are incidents of suicide bombings and other violent crap, but those did not stop this beautiful, significant moment of Iraq - i'm actually pretty excited about it
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

It doesnt matter how they turned out, you wil all cry blasphemy.
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

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It doesnt matter how they turned out, you will all cry blasphemy.

Do you try and project this aura of idiocy or is it just natural?
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

its the truth... you just dont like it then.
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

If I called your mother a five dollar whore you wouldn't like that, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's the truth.
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?? - i thought they were 40 euros..
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What happened to the massive wave of violence expected?
Nobody but the media was expecting that.
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Will a 60% turnout be enough to convince Sunni's that the election was fair or will they just bitch that they aren't represented (since they dont have a very high voter turnout in their areas) .
The Sunnis were never going to 'win' the election. Even with 100% turnout they still would have been Iraq's third largest group (after the Shia and the Kurds). They might 'bitch' that they're no longer going to control the country, but that was a foregone conclusion.
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

I do not believe that I have mentioned the sunni's 'winning' the election but rather that they will be under represented (with potentially 0 Sunni candidates) and certain groups will claim that this makes the elections invalid (mainly because those groups were threatening to kill people who voted and shooting candidates) .


Its a self fulfilling prophecy really.

Has anyone in this thread posted that the elections are a bad thing Qdeathtwat? No.

Has anyone claimed that they were rigged? No.

Just because some (many) of us disagree with the basis for the war, the motives of your goverment and ours or because we have we have problems with the detention without trial and torture of human beings does not mean that we are going to automatically disaprove of Iraqi elections.


But then again I'm only an ignorant elist liberal socialst euro hippy pacifist scum person so what do I know of freedom, democracy and 'moral' values.
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Re: So, these Iraqi elections then

No, NinjaTwat, you claimed that they were going to fail regardless of how the turned out becuases the "sunis werent going to vote"

Yes, you are hippy facifist scum, but thats besides the point.
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Assuming you just didn't misspell the pacifist or the word fascist (which I'm pretty sure you actually did) the word facifist (standing for for fascist pacifist) is your greatest contribution to GD to date.


How about that, your greatest contribution to GD was a typo!
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Nobody but the media was expecting that.
300k Troops and police on the street implies that it was taken to be a serious possibility and they were ready to squish it.

Plus certain groups were promising to wash the street with the blood of voters.......so I wouldn't say it was 'just the media' .


I personally hope that this means they have lost the means/will to fight a losing battle but fundementalists only become more intransigent and desperate the more they become out of step with their popular support/opinion groups.

QDtroll, if Sunnis dont vote they get no reps, if they have no reps they get no say in the new constitution. If they get no say then they probably wont ratify/support* it in the october (?) referedum and if 3 regions/provinces do not support the constitution it will fail. There are currently 4 majority Sunni regions/provinces .

Thus leading us to the reason why a lack of Sunni participation could be a big f*ck up for the elections even though they make up only 15% (I thought it was 20%) of the eligible voters.

Do I need to use some smaller words?



*Since it probably/certainly wont reflect their interests.....or it will be presented in a manner that does not appeal to them.
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300k Troops and police on the street implies that it was taken to be a serious possibility and they were ready to squish it.
I think the only serious possibility was that there would be some attacks--as there were. If they'd seriously thought the terrorists were capable of mounting a "massive wave of violence" then I think they would have been well advised to postponed the elections.
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Plus certain groups were promising to wash the street with the blood of voters.......so I wouldn't say it was 'just the media' .
The same groups who promised to drive the occupation troops out of Iraq, kill interim Prime Minister Allawi and destroy the interim government, shut down Iraq's oil industry, start a civil war, hold Najif, hold Fallujah, etc? The media seem to think the terrorists are all ten feet tall; but if they actually bothered to keep score they'd discover that the terrorists promise far more than they deliver.
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I personally hope that this means they have lost the means/will to fight a losing battle but fundementalists only become more intransigent and desperate the more they become out of step with their popular support/opinion groups.
They started out intransigent and desperate; I honestly don't know how they could become more so.
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QDtroll, if Sunnis dont vote they get no reps, if they have no reps they get no say in the new constitution. If they get no say then they probably wont ratify/support* it in the october (?) referedum and if 3 regions/provinces do not support the constitution it will fail. There are currently 4 majority Sunni regions/provinces .

Thus leading us to the reason why a lack of Sunni participation could be a big f*ck up for the elections even though they make up only 15% (I thought it was 20%) of the eligible voters.
Does anyone remember that many of the Afrikaners boycotted the first post-apartheid election in South Africa?
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There will be a number of Sunnis who will be in the interim assembly. First because not all the Sunnis boycotted the election, and second because there were many Sunni candidates on broader, secular party lists (Prime Minister Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party being probably the largest and best known).

Like any other democracy, I think Iraq's democracy will only work to the extent that the rights of minorities are respected. This depends, to large degree, on the Shia majority because the minorities won't have the political power to protect themselves (by definition).
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No, NinjaTwat, you claimed that they were going to fail regardless of how the turned out becuases the "sunis werent going to vote"

Yes, you are hippy facifist scum, but thats besides the point.
This is the first time I've wanted to give somebody reputation. I mean, REALLY wanted to give somebody some. Sadly, I've allready given you negative, so I have to do more to be able to.

And is it not quite hard to be a fascist and hippy at the same time? Maybe you should check your own views out before you start jabbering on about others? I think the AFA/ARA would like to check you out more than NinjaSpammer.
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Tac, Im not gonna argue with your opinion on the elciton out come cos I think we'll just go round in circles with my pessimism and your optimism


However all those threats that you dismissed were all against hard/secured targets whilst polling stations generally arent..unless you deploy 300,000 armed men,tanks,F-16's and Apache's to defend them. For christ sakes they are terrorists/insurgents/guerilas and they dont take on their oppononents head on or they lose so claiming that they were going to stop the invasion was bravado at best,they did hold fallujah and Najaf for a while until they were essentially overwhelmed, they had been doing a bit of damage to the oil supplies and they were being visibly succesful and blowing large holes in Iraqi officials although not allawi.

As for starting a civil war.....well it does take two to tango and the Shias were not biting.

They may not be 10 feet tall but you would be a fool to simply dismiss them out of hand, especially if they did somehow take down that Herc
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They certainly should not be dismissed out of hand.
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Thank you Tacticus. Finally someone who can argue well has spoken for the "other" side.


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There will be a number of Sunnis who will be in the interim assembly. First because not all the Sunnis boycotted the election, and second because there were many Sunni candidates on broader, secular party lists (Prime Minister Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party being probably the largest and best known).

Like any other democracy, I think Iraq's democracy will only work to the extent that the rights of minorities are respected. This depends, to large degree, on the Shia majority because the minorities won't have the political power to protect themselves (by definition).
Thats true, but even if the Sunnies are treated fair, and there rights are respected, they will still loose a lot of power, compared to what they had under Saddam Hussain, so some of them will probably never be happy.

Note: I ment Hippy Pacifist. The P and the F got mixed. Dont ask me how, but they did.
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qdeathtwat? ninjatwat? hmm.. very creative..
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Btw folks if your gonna neg rep on a politcal thread ya might wanna actually put your name and opinion where your mouth is.
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uhm, YEAH!! whatever ninja said dammit!
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wasnt me ninja..
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