At Least 44 Dead in Iraq Election; Turnout is High

this might be the first positive thing I've heard come out of the whole Iraq situation.

It doesn't suprise me that nobody on Shortnews has anything to say about it though....

i gotta say good luck to them,
lets hope they enjoy what we have had
all our lives and take for granted.

so what was the turnout..different sources are saying totally different things .... anything offical yet ???

stupid terrorists, go live in a cave!

I don't think there has been anything official yet. It is really probably too soon to tell anyway. According to http://elections.gmu.edu/ voter turnout for the 2004 US Presidential election among eligible voters was 60%. I believe that is the highest voter turnout in the US since 1968. Wouldn't it be awesome if the Iraqi eligible voter turnout is higher than the US? It would certainly dampen claims that the election was illegitimate.

Perhaps as many as 14 million voted, from what I heard most recently. And there were apparently about a dozen candidates on the ballot, which would seem to discourage any notion that there was little choice in the election.

Congrats, George W. The war has just been upgraded from "unmitigated failure" to "mitigated failure." Many military officials believed we could have had this WITHOUT bloodshed.

"Many military officials believed we could have had this WITHOUT bloodshed."

This, my friend, has already been proven to be a foolishly assumed notion, mainly adopted by liberal democrats who opposed the war.

The third to last election in Iraq had 90% of Iraq voting for Saddam, with another 10% voting against him. The 10%, for the most part, are no longer alive to tell their story. The following election had Saddam winning 100% of the vote. Only after blood was already shed was there no blood shed at the next election.

The voter turnout in Iraq puts the US voting turn out to shame. I heard most reports saying 72%, while one person told me he heard somewhere that it was 96%. I'm quite skeptical of the 96%, but, I do believe the percentage was greater than the 2004 US election.

U are aware that the US blocked an Anti-Saddam uprising before the war (which looked as if it could have worked) ...no ??? Problem being that if the Iraqi people had of ousted him themselves the US wouldn't get it's military base in the area .... so yeah it had to be war

I would laugh me head off if the Iraquis voted for a secular government like Iran.
Of cource, the US would never allow that to happen.

Irak population ; 25 millions.
Irak registred voters ; 8 millions.
Turnout ; 60%.
Voters ; 4.8 millions.
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Is this election should be considered a success? No, but its a good step. If we didnt knew already who was winning this election.