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- vespa0
haven't read the whole thread but this jumped out:
why in the hell would people be pissed off that the iraqis voted, and there were minimal voting day deaths. why would people be in opposition to that?
virtu
(Jan 30 05, 13:31)Firstly, "minimal voting day deaths", what does that mean? 40 people are killed and that's considered "minimal"? according to whom? 9 suicide bombings in one day, the highest number the world has ever seen, that's minimal?
Secondly, regarding all the "historic victory for democracy" rhetoric, Robert Fisk reporting from Bagdhad says this:
"It was easy to be maudlin about such word, to imbibe the false optimism of the Western television networks and the nonsense about Iraq's "historic" day - for it will only have been historic if it changes this country, and many fear it will not.
No one I met yesterday believes the insurgency will end. Many thought it would grow more ferocious and the Shias in the polling stations said with one voice that they were also voting to rid Iraq of the Americans, not to legitimise their presence."