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Originally Posted by rickg
Sorry guys. Didn't mean to kill this thread. It just seems that whatever "important issue" is brought up, the same rhetoric is used over and over by the same people. Ever read the story about the Boy that cried Wolf?
Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled program.
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This is an important issue. If the Iraqi people don't perceive they have had a free and fair election there is just going to be more violence and we will just sink deeper into the quagmire. So far the election is a joke. The largest political party, the Baathists, has been banned. With only six weeks to go, not a single candidate has been able to campaign, because doing so is a sure ticket to be assasinated. Over 200 parties have been formed, and the voters have no knowledge of what any of them stand for. The Kurds don't want to participate, and the Sunnis who are not currently being machine gunned by us don't want to either. Now we are going to throw election-fixing into the friggin mess.