http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...2005122000823.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/iraq
Sunnis demanding re-election........on the basis of fraud.
Sunnis demanding re-election........on the basis of fraud.
The unexpected high results for the Shiite parties in Baghdad province had angered Sunni political parties and led them and former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and his supporters to suspect foul play, Campbell said.
"The election results in Iraq may present Chalabi’s ardent U.S. supporters with a quandary: Chalabi, as well as other losing candidates, is alleging fraud in the election, even though the Bush administration hailed the vote as a historic step for democracy in Iraq," NBC reports. Indeed, the country is now in political turmoil over this.
During the election, Chalabi’s campaign posters proclaimed, "We Liberated Iraq."
Just last month, with the help of major U.S. lobbyists, he toured this country, meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and appeared widely on American television
Karlin said:December 22, 2005
"Chalabi, Judith Miller Source and Exile Leader, Gets Less than 1% in Election "
http://tinyurl.com/7o7z5
Chalabi was the installed leader wsn't he? The USA put him there?
He was former CIA etc. American diplomat, American educated.
So if the election was rigged, results skewed, why how could Chalibi only get "300 votes"?
Ah HA!! - he must have pissed off the Americans. Maybe he got some backbone and tried to save Iraq for the Iraqis.
He was Judith Miller's source too. Chalabi says "fraud", USA says "fair" election - they got what they wanted, Chalabi outta there!
Do ya think?
"The election results in Iraq may present Chalabi’s ardent U.S. supporters with a quandary: Chalabi, as well as other losing candidates, is alleging fraud in the election, even though the Bush administration hailed the vote as a historic step for democracy in Iraq," NBC reports. Indeed, the country is now in political turmoil over this.
During the election, Chalabi’s campaign posters proclaimed, "We Liberated Iraq."
Just last month, with the help of major U.S. lobbyists, he toured this country, meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and appeared widely on American television
Ah HA!! - he must have pissed off the Americans.
Hard-Luck Henry said:Ah HA!! - he must have pissed off the Americans.
Isn't Chalabi being investigated by the FBI, for selling US secrets to his good friends, the Iranians? I imagine that would do the trick.
jimmoyer said:We should have let the psychotic police state
of Saddam continue to poison his own people
and poison the Middle East --- they were certainly
better off that way.
Same for North Koreans.
We just gotta stay out of it.
Just like a NewYorker watching a mugging.
It's none of your business.