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ngant17 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-20-04 02:45 AM
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30. rigging Iraqi elections a piece of cake
Considering how much experience Shrub and company have with rigged and stolen elections in the US, would it be plausible to suggest that they might have a vested interest in working the numbers over there in Iraq? Who's doing the counting? Always the Republicans, of course. Will he use Diebold or Sequoyia to pull it off? As if it really matters!

Even if you have perfectly fair 'counting machines', it would seem that having elections in the middle of a war would not be the most appropriate time.

When was the last time the US Marines invaded a country and created a "democracy"? I recall Nicaragua in 1927, which led to the Somoza dynasty. Sandino didn't count for much back then. He never accepted the official results, and he and 2 of his generals were shot in the back after given amnesty.
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