Deegan said:It would appear that the vote was a great success in Iraq today, the vote had to be extended, in order to allow for the extremely large turnout. Sunni's especially turned out in large numbers, they actually ran out of ballots in certain areas, a great sign that they may avoid civil war. I certainly hope we are seeing the first of many votes in Iraq, and that the violence continues to remain low after the elections. I am especially encouraged that our brave troops can begin to come home, they deserve all our praise, and they should be extremely proud, of a job WELL DONE!
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iraq
KCConservative said:The Sunni turnout is the most encouraging part of this. They are beginning to realize that this democracy is going to happen, with or without them. They may as well get on board. This is another great day for the good people of Iraq. The entire Iraq effort - from throwing Saddam out to fighting the insurgency to the writing of a constitution to this election - is a huge success.
KCConservative said:The Sunni turnout is the most encouraging part of this. They are beginning to realize that this democracy is going to happen, with or without them. They may as well get on board. This is another great day for the good people of Iraq. The entire Iraq effort - from throwing Saddam out to fighting the insurgency to the writing of a constitution to this election - is a huge success.
KCConservative said:The Bush haters won't touch this thread. A successful election in Iraq shoots down all of their lies and rhetoric.
Deegan said:It would appear that the vote was a great success in Iraq today, the vote had to be extended, in order to allow for the extremely large turnout. Sunni's especially turned out in large numbers, they actually ran out of ballots in certain areas, a great sign that they may avoid civil war. I certainly hope we are seeing the first of many votes in Iraq, and that the violence continues to remain low after the elections. I am especially encouraged that our brave troops can begin to come home, they deserve all our praise, and they should be extremely proud, of a job WELL DONE!
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iraq
Middleground said:I cannot beileve that y'all are foolish enough to believe that everything is peachy keen in Iraq because of the voter turnout. You must be the folk that believed in the rose petal greetings that were supposed to happen when Iraq was liberated from Saddam. It's going to take years -- if at ALL -- for democracy to take shape in any form in Iraq. After all of these years, Russia is still struggling with it!
So no, I don't believe for one second that the region is reformed/stabilized, nor will it be for some time to come. And before all you bashers call me partisan and anti-american and all of that crap, think about it. Nothing anti about my rant, I'm just being a realist.
A positive step? Sure.
But that's about it.
Okay Navy Pride... start with the usual name calling. Try to be more creative than "you damn liberals" this time, m'kay? :roll:
Caine said:Not to mention the trillions of debt we are in just to build a new democracy....
So HOORAY FOR IRAQ!!!!!!!!!
Navy Pride said:This is a great victory for the Iraqi people and democracy in the middle east and President Bush and a crushing defeat for people in this country who want us to fail in Iraq for partisan political reasons..........
Middleground said:It's going to take years -- if at ALL -- for democracy to take shape in any form in Iraq. After all of these years, Russia is still struggling with it!
So no, I don't believe for one second that the region is reformed/stabilized, nor will it be for some time to come. And before all you bashers call me partisan and anti-american and all of that crap, think about it. Nothing anti about my rant, I'm just being a realist.
A positive step? Sure.
But that's about it.
Deegan said:I don't recall anyone saying "mission accomplished" here, just trying to read some good news for once, jeesh!:roll:
The Real McCoy said:Umm... the Iraq war has only cost about $200 billion since it started... less than $100 bil a year.. a small, less than 10% chunk of federal spending.
Stace said:No one is saying that this isn't a positive sign, but I'd hardly call it a "victory"....Iraq still has a long way to go before anyone actually reaps the benefits of a democracy there.
I don't really think there are too many people that want us to "fail" in Iraq....there's just a lot of us that see no justification for us being there in the first place. But we're there, nothing we can do to change that, so we might as well do what we were sent to do, to the best of our ability.
Caine said:Okay... take everything I say exactly as it is......
It is contributing to the massive debt .....
Okay? are you friggin' happy now????
The Real McCoy said:I agree that it will take years for a successful democracy to be realized but today's election was a major step toward that goal and should be celebrated, not criticized as many democrats are doing.
Navy Pride said:Here come the naysayers and the doom and gloomers......I love it.........
Middleground said:Navy, do you ever have anything concrete to say? All I get from you is made up facts blown out of your arse (that will be the day when you actually post a link... you have time to post 3,000 useless posts, but yet never have the time to research your "facts") and stupid partisan comments.
Frankly, I'm sick and tired of your useless waste of cyberspace.
Navy Pride said:Yeah the left and the Bush haters are firmly behind the prez and wants him to succeed in Iraq:roll: .........Murtha says we can't win there......
Stace said:Hmmm....that's funny....I didn't say anything about the left specifically, or Bush. Who knows what his real agenda is? No, I was talking about the troops, the men and women that are actually IN Iraq, busting their butts to accomplish things like this vote...THOSE are the people I want to see succeed.
Caine said:This is why he has now earned my ignore click twice........
He never contributes anything actually worthy of debating on.
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