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Kindred
Joined: 25 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:46 am Post subject: Sunnis Call Election Results Fraudulent |
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Sunnis Call Election Results Fraudulent
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni Arabs on Tuesday challenged partial election results released a day earlier, calling them a "falsification of the will of the people" and saying evidence of fraud was abundant. A driver for Jordan's embassy was kidnapped by assailants.
Sunni Arab officials suggested that the country's security and stability were at stake if their complaints about last week's parliamentary vote were not addressed. Officials concentrated their protests on results from Baghdad province, the country's biggest electoral district.
Election officials said the United Iraqi Alliance — a Shiite party — took about 59 percent of the vote from 89 percent of ballot boxes counted in Baghdad province. The Sunni Arab Iraqi Accordance Front received about 19 percent, and the Iraqi National List headed by Ayad Allawi, a secular-minded Shiite, got about 14 percent.
The Iraqi Accordance Front, a coalition of three major Sunni Arab groups, rejected those results, warning of "grave repercussions on security and political stability" if the mistakes were not corrected.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq |
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BastionOfSanity
Joined: 13 Sep 2005
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Location: Massachusetts, New England Confederation
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:21 am Post subject: |
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"If we don't win, we'll blow s**t up."
Great "democracy." |
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Reform
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
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Location: Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:52 am Post subject: |
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| This was to be expected, the longer allied forces occupy the country, the more society will become polarised and the closer we get to full blown civil war. |
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Johannes
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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| This was going to happen no matter what. Yeah, if they don't win they'll blow sh*t up. |
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DavidXV
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| This was to be expected, Leftist extremist sites like New York Times and their commie bretheren Yahoo news diligently hunting for a negative spin so they will never have to report any of the good news coming out of Iraq. |
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eynon
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Johannes wrote: This was going to happen no matter what. Yeah, if they don't win they'll blow sh*t up.
They can blow s**t up all they like, they'll never win....Shias are that country's majority, ergo they'll win elections and civil-wars.
The second we leave that country the sunni insurgents are f****d.... |
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Johannes
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| Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:50 am Post subject: |
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Eynon81 wrote: Johannes wrote: This was going to happen no matter what. Yeah, if they don't win they'll blow sh*t up.
They can blow s**t up all they like, they'll never win....Shias are that country's majority, ergo they'll win elections and civil-wars.
The second we leave that country the sunni insurgents are f****d....
So they're being self destructive? They'd rather face their countrymen who outnumber them to the American foreigners who don't? Hmmm...who's arguing that the U.S. isn't winning the war :roll: |
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Alula
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| Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2005 2:05 am Post subject: |
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If we don't win we blow things up. I have a problem with that philosophy.
They are trying to run an election and you people are saying that our soldiars
are there in vain. basically ... that what they are Dying for is for what ..
I know what its for why can't you people see it. I wouldn't want to be stoned
to death if my Husband didn't like how I sat or looked at some person who
happened to be male. I wouldn't want to be raped and be consided used
goods so then I would be stoned to death. In America Women are not Personal Property we are individuals with rights equal to those of our male
counterparts. |
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liford
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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Location: Saint Louis
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The problem with these elections is that you can't just hurl democracy on a country who's not familiar with it and expect things to go smoothly right away. These people are used to fighting their way to power.
At least the Sunnis are voicing their grievances rather than just using car bombs to make their message. Hopefully the election officials actually look into this though. It's obviously a pretty real scenario. This could be really violent if not fixed soon. Odds are, it will probably be pretty violent anyway. |
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