Rice: Iraq Constitution Probably Approved

What a bunch of amateurs. Those really skilled at putting the fix in would be quiet at this moment.

Congrats Chimpy! You've weakened a nation and hastened our demise.

How on earth can we made the repugs accountable for their catastrophic mistakes? Is it possible?

To paraphrase what was said about Frank Sinatra, "It's a Repug world. We just breath dirty air they created."

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

It's the American Way of Life. Well, if you're a Talebornagain.

oh my.... how you do manage to reveal the hypocrisy of it all.

of the radical American clerics will be so jealous when the first stone has been thrown. Of course, the fact that their own Jesus had something to say about being without sin, and throwing stones, will be lost on them.

I am so very sorry, Iraqi sisters. I know life under Saddam was bad, but at least you had a chance to get educations, enter professions, and walk around like adults, needing no man's permission to leave your home. Your new status as property is being brought to you by the most corrupt, worst president in the world, George Bush.

I suppose a reporter asked her: "And how would you know the outcome before the votes have been counted?"

Even if there is no fix, they look likely to reject it in 2 provinces and come very close to rejecting it in a 3rd. With results like that and a constitution that really sticks it to the Sunnis, it looks like the table is being all set for a long term insurgency in about 25% of the country. That includes a huge border area where the insurgents will be able to be supplied by Sunnis living in other countries for years and years.

Its amazing how much this sounds like Vietnam and Cambodia, the whole thing.

proposed constitution and some did not even for what they were voting.

Voting "Yes" does not make it approved if it is unknown.

they deliberately withheld news that five more US soldiers were killed in one attack yesterday. Like the rest of thwm, she's 'fried rice'.

that's democracy, right? Can the soldiers come home now?

:(

It's nice to see Rice Lying again:

"She stressed, however, that she does not know the outcome
for certain."

If they don't bring the troops home now, does that mean we're just propping up a puppet government?

This shit won't last five minutes after the US military departs.

Of course, Bu$h and the neocons want us in Iraq forever to keep raking in the bucks for robber barons.

Democracy my ass!

Peace.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051016/wl_nm/iraq_dc_64;_ylt=Av2PvOhLkqUqFwUsCp6351BX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Iraq voters seen approving constitution

By Andrew Quinn and Mariam Karouny
30 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi voters have probably approved a new U.S.-backed constitution, overcoming fierce Sunni Arab opposition in a vote Washington hopes will boost its beleaguered strategy in Iraq, results showed on Sunday.

Early counts from Saturday's referendum indicated the vote split as expected along largely communal lines, reflecting the bitter ethnic and religious tensions that have cost thousands of Iraqi lives since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

"This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace," U.S. President George W. Bush told reporters in Washington. "Democracies are peaceful countries."

Tight security kept the polls mostly trouble-free although five U.S. soldiers and a Marine were killed in the Sunni west, the military said, raising the U.S. death toll in Iraq to 1,971.