Let the Distraction begin: Iraq constitutional vote results just in!!!!

Breaking news

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-25T111543Z_01_DIT539585_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ-REFERENDUM-RESULT.xml

Iraq constitution ratified in referendum
Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:15 PM BST

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqis have ratified their new constitution, the results of a referendum showed on Tuesday.

Electoral Commission officials told a news conference 78 percent of voters backed the charter and 21 percent opposed it.

Of 18 provinces, only two recorded "No" votes greater than two thirds, one province short of a veto. Turnout in the October 15 referendum was 63 percent, commission officials had said previously.

U.S. officials sponsoring the political process had described the turnout, in which many of the disaffected Sunni Arab minority took part, as a success for Iraqi democracy.

Bush won a third term

DBDB

but not by 2/3 majority.

Sounds like American style democracy to me.

:eyes:

worth the paper it's written on.

the violence will continue.

The violence won't just continue, it will accelerate dramatically.

from the de-facto civil war we created by our illegal invasion and occupation.


The only thing the Sunnis, Shia, and Kurds hate more than each other...

is us.

No link yet.

sovreignty, uday and qusay's deaths, saddam's capture, vote for governing council, vote for interim government,

what else?

captured, maimed, or killed.

The thing that will really bring the downfall of these bad-dudes was the capture of the so-called Islamic militant website's webmaster a couple weeks ago.

ONE GODDAMN TERRORIST!!!! NOT ONE!

I thought the fascist patriot act would help the War on freedom..I mean terror

I thought torturing people would help the war on terra.

WTF?>

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One "swing province" voted no, but not by the required 2/3. Two other provinces voted no by more than 2/3.

The requirement for this thing to fail was three provinces voting no by 2/3.

That means that statistically, 65% of IRaqis could have voted against the thing and it still could have passed.

are totally opposed to it, and if they're not represented (which they aren't, despite last minute compromises) and because the "constitution" can be modified at any time, you'll see an escalation of the low-grade civil war that's happening right now.

Zero, none, zilch, nil, nada, goose-egg, nothing........ it won't change anything. Well, it might. I might make the different factions MORE emotionally charged and determined to wipe each other out. "Freedom is on the march" in Iraq! :eyes:

bush style freedom and democracy mean nothing.