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| Thread ID: 53967 | 2005-02-01 03:57:00 | Hooray for Democracy in Iraq! | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 320226 | 2005-02-01 03:57:00 | If you follow these things, the general elections in Iraq have been successfully completed despite efforts by terrorists and Western naysayers to derail it in their own ways. This op-ed (www.theaustralian.news.com.au) conveys my feelings on the matter quite well. No, I am not a pro-Bush/pro-American/pro-Imperialist/pro-Corporation blah blah blah. I just happen to think that despite cultural and/or social backgrounds, and despite its failings (Hitler was voted into office of course), democracy is the best thing we've got in terms of people living a nice, peaceful and prosperous life. | vinref (6194) | ||
| 320227 | 2005-02-01 04:29:00 | Maybe. But in the post election euphoria, let us not forget the thousands of men, women and children killed by western forces to bring this about. The so-called co-lateral damage. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 320228 | 2005-02-01 05:59:00 | Maybe. But in the post election euphoria, let us not forget the thousands of men, women and children killed by western forces to bring this about. The so-called co-lateral damage. You are right of course,we should have Sadam and his thug sons to run the show. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 320229 | 2005-02-01 05:59:00 | In some places 95% of people voted. Overall the estimate is 60%. Saddam lovers aside, people WANTED to vote. The quicker they get their own government and police/military establisted firmly, the more chance the occupation troops will leave. Yes, many died - occupation troops included. What is odd to me, is that after WW2 the Germans and Japanese (by and large) cooperated and built up their democratic states without terrorist or other similar attacks. Finally, when GWB's home country (the USA, not Texas!) became independent, many were killed during the revolution. I am certainly no Bush proponent by any means, but this thread is about"Hooray for democracy in Iraq" and I agree; Hooray!! |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 320230 | 2005-02-01 06:01:00 | Forgot to mention: news reports say that when the suicide/terrorist attacks came during voting, people 'simply' waited until the injured or dead were taken care of... then they continued to the polling stations and voted!!! | Strommer (42) | ||
| 320231 | 2005-02-01 06:04:00 | No skin off my nose what sort of govenment they have, democracy isn't the be all and end all of anything. The yanks should just get the hell out of all the countries they have been meddling in for the last 60 years. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 320232 | 2005-02-01 07:16:00 | No skin off my nose what sort of govenment they have, democracy isn't the be all and end all of anything. The yanks should just get the hell out of all the countries they have been meddling in for the last 60 years. Now THIS is the Metla I have got used to !!!! PJ :D :D |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 320233 | 2005-02-01 07:43:00 | You are right of course,we should have Sadam and his thug sons to run the show. Well there's alway the UN to run the show, just like they did in the Balkans, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Angola, Sierra Leone... Remember them? Or maybe the unctious French like they did in Indochina and Algeria. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 320234 | 2005-02-01 07:55:00 | Forgot to mention: You do know about Edit don't you ;) That's another international issue almost sorted... now what's next? Looks like the AIDS problem, etc. in Africa is never going to be sorted at this rate. |
~sy~ (95) | ||
| 320235 | 2005-02-01 07:57:00 | What is odd to me, is that after WW2 the Germans and Japanese (by and large) cooperated and built up their democratic states without terrorist or other similar attacks. Finally, when GWB's home country (the USA, not Texas!) became independent, many were killed during the revolution. I am certainly no Bush proponent by any means, but this thread is about"Hooray for democracy in Iraq" and I agree; Hooray!! IMHO the vast majority of Iraqis wanted to cooperate fully in rebuilding their country as a democracy, just like post-war Germany and Japan. The opposition that you have been seeing in Iraq is almost all from Islamists, terrorist and otherwise, who wanted Iraq to be a theocracy in the style of Taleban-Afghanistan. What the news almost never reports is that these Islamists are almost always foreigners extolling the foreign concept of Wahabism. Their number is probably very small, but the methods they use to terrorise people is very noticeable. |
vinref (6194) | ||
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