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2005-01-09 Iraq-Jordan

Pachachi calls for delay in Iraq elections

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Posted by Fred 2005-01-09 11:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Shia shit hammer is coming down gents! Vote or die!

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-09 1:03:06 PM|| 2005-01-09 1:03:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Sunnis will eventually be forced to understand that increased violence brings an increased response. I fear that we will have to revert to invasion tactics in the Sunni triangle before they grasp the concept: they seem to still be working with the idea that if they push back, we will fold. Once again, thanks be to all Powers above that GWB was re-elected.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-09 3:18:01 PM|| 2005-01-09 3:18:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Adnan Pachachi, who was Iraqâs foreign minister before the 1968 Baathist coup and now heads the small Iraqi Independent Democrats party, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that a delay could allow talks to be held with those who are refusing to take part in the elections.

Sounds like the guy hasn't learned any common sense after the passage of 37 long years.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-09 6:33:39 PM|| 2005-01-09 6:33:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 âIf they are going to be held on Jan. 30 without the participation of large segments of the Iraqi population and important areas of Iraq, the elections would be seen as non-inclusive and illegitimate,â Pachachi said.

Only by the exact same (Sunni) faction that is trying to disrupt the elections. It's time for the Sunnis to get a firm lesson in how elected representation works.

Don't participate = Don't get any say

Its more than a little obvious how the Sunnis continue to think that sheer brute force will get them their way. All the more reason that they should find themselves marginalized after a voluntary no-show in the coming elections. Those who embrace elected representation will deserve their well-earned access to power. Those who do not will be ground under a majority boot-heel of their own making.

You'd think that all the other Sunni majority Arab nations surrounding Iraq would be vigorously slapping some sense into their recalcitrant Iraqi brethern. I can only suppose they're so caught up in the usual modus operendi of fomenting terrorism that they've completely forgotten about what'll happen after the elections. A complete lack of elections in most of those same states might be another explanation. If the Shiites weren't such total loons, I'd actually relish this.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-09 10:07:23 PM|| 2005-01-09 10:07:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 He reminds me of Walter Mondale.

Posted by Pappy 2005-01-09 10:20:14 PM|| 2005-01-09 10:20:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, Walter Mondale with Jimmy Durante's nose...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-09 10:46:07 PM|| 2005-01-09 10:46:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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