If you were an Iraqi citizen, would you vote

in the upcoming election? I wouldn't. Violence is so pervasive that it seems as if simply going to the polls would be risking life and limb. And why should Iraqis have any faith in elections set up by a puppet of the U.S. government? It just seems like yet another debacle, engineered by the U.S., for which the Iraqis will pay dealy. Of course, I want to see fair elections in Iraq; I just don't see how they can be held under the current conditions.

Supposedly they are allowing Bath party to be a part of it. Id send a big FU to Bush and vote Bath.

I wouldn't vote, because I wouldn't see the point. The current government has apparently decided that the US can stay indefinately, and if that happens, there will be just more chaos, imho.

Every candidate is probably Pro-US. If this were a fair election, they would vote for an ANTI-AMERICAN Islamic fundamentalist.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

She has a fresh post today:

Elections are a mystery. No one knows if they'll actually take place and it feels like many people don't want to have anything to do with them. They aren't going to be legitimate any way. The only political parties participating in them are the same ones who made up the Governing Council several months ago- Allawi's group, Chalabi's group, SCIRI, Da'awa and some others. Allawi, in spite of all his posturing and posing, has turned himself into a hateful figure after what happened in Falloojeh. As long as he is in a position of power, America will be occupying Iraq. People realize that now. He's Bush's boy. He has proved that time and again and people are tired of waiting for something insightful or original to come from his government.

I'd fear the US would hunt me down and torture me.