Re: OT: reaction to Iraqi elections

From: Fred Bloggs (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:41:53 GMT

John Larkin wrote:

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>
> Right. Installing a freely elected representative government is indeed
> a fiendishly clever way to get the US to pull out. Those rascals!
>

Here is the victory statement of the undisputed winner, the election was
by UN resolution- looks like the US loses- the quislings are out:

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim claimed victory in the Sunday elections for the
United Iraqi Alliance, the coalition of religious Shiite parties he
leads. And this is what the winners, if they are winners, think of the US:

' "No one welcomes the foreign troops in Iraq. We believe in the ability
of Iraqis to run their own issues, including the security issue," Mr
Hakim said. "Of course this issue could be brought up by the new
government." '