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Originally Posted by El Blanco
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Originally Posted by GAsux
Good job Kev. They're actually electing a 300+ member body. So in a way, it's possible for everyone to win without anything actually being accomplished.
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Not to be cynical, but isn't that just about every democratically elected government? |
Yes, and maybe I'm wrong, but I think GAsux was referring to that as a
good thing. Everybody from every party and of every ideology can win and go home happy, but nobody gets put in front of firing squads the next day, or nobody feels compelled to emigrate somewhere else due to the results (we hope).
I think the argument that this isn't a truly free election because people are scared, yada yada, is a bit overstated. Of course they're scared. These "insurgents" publicly executed two election workers in the middle of the street a few weeks ago. People SHOULD be scared.
But that doesn't mean the vote shouldn't happen, and it also doesn't mean people aren't campaigning. I mean, let's be honest, at this point in the game, you can probably look at the regions, observe who's running, and call who's gonna win. That's fine. It's called a party machine, and our country functioned that way for the better part of the 20th Century.
Nothing will be perfect, nothing will go smoothly, and there will most certainly be something to critique the next day. But hopefully, this will be a HUGE step forward towards whatever the right direction may be for Iraqis. And also hopefully, maybe for the first time, it'll be
them who decides that course, rather than the British, or the French, or the U.S., or some Arab monarchy, or another Saddam Hussein.
And hopefully, one day, we can go to war with the democratic republic of Iraq.
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