70 percent

[cingular]

The Iraq war was not a mistake. Read it and weep!! 70 percent voter turn out. Over 11 million ballots casted.

[minijosh]

I wish our voters would follow a 3rd world countries example and vote.

[Ace42X]

The Iraq war was not a mistake. Read it and weep!! 70 percent voter turn out. Over 11 million ballots casted.

Fuck off Gizmo. How many more times do you need to get banned before you get the message?

[ASsman]

20$ says a even number of times... anyone want in on the pool?

[sam i am]

20$ says a even number of times... anyone want in on the pool?

I'll take odd for $20 (he IS odd, ain't he?)

[QueenAdrock]

The Iraq war was not a mistake. Read it and weep!! 70 percent voter turn out. Over 11 million ballots casted.

Voting means nothing. It's symbolic and won't reflect actual results. Wait for your Republican circle jerk for AFTER they have a stable government without America being there. So, good luck to them keeping democracy without an insurgency taking over.

[synch]

Was it a fair election? If so your lot should take notes how an election should be run.

[ASsman]

Damn, bitch slapped.

[DapperDiverge]

The Iraq war was not a mistake. Read it and weep!! 70 percent voter turn out. Over 11 million ballots casted.

So?? it was a mistake for us... it's been 4 years and I'm waiting for Osama to send us another taunting video holiday message with him making a raspberry "Nah, nah!!"

No offense but I don't understand why we went there damnit!! How about giving something nice to Africa, like food or a nice stable government??

How about taking down Kim Jung Il, and freeing his people, they need it??

Life is Chess, you have to focus on the whole board... not one spot

And Bush says "now we have another ally on the fight against terrorism"
We'd have more allies ie: Europe, S. America, Canada, etc... but he had to act like an arrogant dick and shun them all... yeah, I'd say everything's going to some plan that someone keeps making up as they go along

[Freedom Toast]

The Iraq war was not a mistake. Read it and weep!! 70 percent voter turn out. Over 11 million ballots casted.


So...with your measuring stick of success...it must mean Iraq is better than America now. Right?

Iraq is a beacon of freedom!!!

[Ali]

The Iraq war was not a mistake. Read it and weep!! 70 percent voter turn out. Over 11 million ballots casted.
70% of what's left (http://www.iraqbodycount.net/) isn't very much, is it?

I hope things calm down there, now. Even if it gives Conservatives an excuse to Crow and improves Bush and Blair's popularity, I just want those poor people to get a break and be allowed to rebuild their shattered lives.

And I want the US out of Iraq and a benevolent government which is truly representative of the Iraqi people to rule the country fairly. I do not want another US puppet government.

Let's hope the UIA are not going to torture any more Sunnis.

The voters faced a dizzying array of choices—some 7,000 candidates from 220 different political groups. But these are batched into larger coalitions, of which several stand out as most likely to form a government. The largest group currently, the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), is expected to keep the top spot. Rather than representing a united Iraq, the UIA is now mainly a religious Shia grouping that includes Mr Jaafari. It took 48% of the vote in January, helped by the Sunni boycott. With Sunnis participating this time, the UIA’s share of the vote will surely fall. But it has the blessing of Iraq’s most powerful cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. As a result, one of the group’s most prominent members, Adel Abd al-Mahdi, a moderate Islamist and a current vice-president, stands a good chance of becoming prime minister.

Secularists and Sunnis do not trust the UIA, however. One of its constituent parties is the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), of which Mr Mahdi is a member. Many SCIRI figures spent time in neighbouring Iran during Saddam’s rule, and Sunnis in particular worry that the party is a front for Iranian influence.

Sunnis have another problem with the UIA: the discovery in recent weeks of prisons in which inmates, mostly Sunnis, have been badly abused (some say tortured) by their largely Shia captors. Mr Jaafari has called the situation unacceptable and promised a full investigation. But the affair has the feel of Shia retribution for their sufferings under Saddam and his Sunni-dominated security services. Sunni nationalists used this fear to get out the vote—“vote for us so you won’t be tortured by them”—which does not bode well for the kind of consensual politics post-election Iraq will require. Economist (http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5299697&no_ga_tran=1)