Iraq's electoral commission said Monday it intended to audit "unusually high" numbers in results coming from most provinces in the country's landmark referendum on the draft constitution.
The U.S. military said, meanwhile, that its warplanes and helicopters bombed two western villages Sunday, killing an estimated 70 militants near a site where five American soldiers died in a roadside blast. Residents said at least 39 of the dead were civilians.
Hey, it could be worse...they could have Ken Blackwell running the election, and then everything would turn out as required for max PR value for the 1600 Crew. Just think of the wood in the Oval Office over this, for every IED that goes off, they just drop enough Snake and Rock-eye into the nearest village to increase the body count, and on to the Press Bar! Why, it's MAC-V redux! Body counts! Rigged voting! An insurgency of pandemic proportions! Mr. Preznit you have just killed the relatives of millions of questionably registered voters...Vietnam II, scarier than the Original!
Oh, wait.
Never mind. I forgot we were Spreading Democracy and Freedoms one Five-hundred pounder at a time. My bad.
posted by Jo Fish on 10.17.05 at 04:02 PM
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And we can get all sorts of news items about Iraq, about the "elections" (is it a purple finger again?)... well, I guess it's just the "elections" these days, but not a word about the--as of today--1,976 US soldiers killed there, some likely by those 500-pounders. But we won't run from Iraq; Fearless Leader threatened us with that again today. Yep, the Big Fool said to move on.
posted by: Nina on 10.17.05 at 09:52 PM [permalink]
