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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 06:58 PM
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Didn't bush and Allawi thugs brag today about coming election in Iraq???
I'm pretty damn sure they did. I'm pretty damn sure they touted the coming election as PROOF that all is wonderful in Iraq.

So RummyDummy yapping today about a LIMITED IRAQ ELECTION is just kinda bizarre.

And just how is it a proper election if entire areas of people are excluded??? What areas will be excluded from our election in November?

Rumsfeld Suggests Limited Iraq Election

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday raised the possibility that some areas of Iraq might be excluded from elections scheduled for January if security could not be guaranteed.

"If there were to be an area where the extremists focused during the election period, and an election was not possible in that area at that time, so be it. You have the rest of the election and you go on. Life's not perfect," Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45568-2004Sep23.html

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DRoseDARs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 07:01 PM
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1. Yep, he's a little off-message today. Guess he didn't get the memo...
:P
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 07:01 PM
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2. Or let Diebold machines in and tell them what the results should be.
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teach1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 07:02 PM
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3. A partial election is sometimes a good thing...
Bush 2000
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 07:04 PM
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4. I ask you, what kind of an election are they going to have in 3 months
when no candidates have been identified, no registration/identification process is in place and whole sections of the country are disenfranchised due to the fact that they are being "protected" by unidentified rebel tribal groups?

Sounds limited to me too.
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 07:09 PM
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5. I think they're setting us up for a half-assed election here;
they'll say "it worked in Iraq" and you know there's going to be some election problems in Florida and Nevada, since they've already set up that scenario. When Alawi said they didn't need any more troops in Iraq, what do you want to bet he meant we need more money. I'll leave where you think more money would go, but you're a smart bunch.
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 07:14 PM
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6. did you see The Daily Show about how a terror alert would
affect our elections. First the commentator says that in the most threatened areas, elections would be called off--and coastal areas are the most threatened. And he colored the threatened areas on the map, well, blue, and the safe areas, red, and guess what the "terror" map looked like?

And of course, terrorists are likely to strike in big cities, so americans living in large urban areas should just stay home.

And large Great Lakes states should too (just arbitratrarily said to make the map precisely the Gore Bush electoral race)

And to balance it out--pe0ple in the safe or "red" areas would get two votes to make the election complete.

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cheshire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-04 07:16 PM
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7. Certainly makes it hard to understand just what Bushies support him for.
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