Fixed I tell you, fixed
In the face of pretty overwhelming evidence that the Iraqis - Sunnis included - participated in the constititutional referendum and that it passed virtually everywhere, Juan Cole is reduced to charging vote fraud…
Al-Hayat reports that 643,000 votes were cast in Ninevah Province (capital: Mosul). At the time it filed, 419,000 had been preliminarily counted, and the vote was running 75 percent in favor. Ninevah Province was the most likely place that Sunni Arabs opposing the constitution might be able to get a 2/3s “no” vote.
Several of my knowledgeable readers are convinced that the Ninevah voting results as reported so far look like fraud. One suspected that the Iraqi government so feared a defeat there that they over-did the ballot stuffing and ended up with an implausible result.
juan cole
Of course you understand this is not Juan speaking. No, the turd tells us it is his Iraqi correspondents - unnamed - who write.
Gee, how surprising is this. Confronted with the fact that ordinary Sunnis are unconvinced that terror is the way to ensure their political future Cole plugs his ears and tunelessly sings, “La. la, la…I can’t hear you” and then, at the end of the entry, moves on to the Plame affair.
The Iraqis, meanwhile, are demonstrating that there is nothing inherent in the Arab or Muslim character which precludes democracy. Of course, that racist postion has really only ever been advocated by the soft racists on the left. The rest of us were pretty convinced that once you got rid of the Stalinesque dictator and stirred the pot a bit there was not reason why a democracy could not emerge.
Written by jay on October 18th, 2005 with
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