Iraq Elections may prove disappointing!

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President Bush is placing a great deal of emphasis on the Iraqi elections on the 30th of January. Even if these elections are held, there is no guarantee it will help to create a more peaceful Iraq or enable the withdrawal of American forces.

The possibilities that will follow the election are many. It is possible that a government may be selected around which the majority of Iraq people will rally and move toward a more stable environment. On the other hand the government that is selected may turn out to be just another enemy for the United States and the West to deal with.

Another possibility is that large factions of Iraq will not accept the new government and the unrest that we are seeing will turn into a civil war. We might also see the new government request the United States to leave and after our forces are removed Iraq turns into a bloodier battlefield.

One thing that President Bush has said that is correct is we must judge based on results.
Thus, the weeks and months ahead will show us if the United States has made the right or the wrong choice by going into Iraq.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
well, US elections have proved disappointing here lately, why should Iraq be any different?
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
For our dead and injured military I hope they will be different!
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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top
For our dead and injured military I hope they will be different!


I hope so too, but anyone who thinks that Iraq will suddenly become a super-happy Western democracy and all the insurgents will back down and there will be no more need for US troops in Iraq on January 31st seriously needs to get their head examined.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

I hope so too, but anyone who thinks that Iraq will suddenly become a super-happy Western democracy and all the insurgents will back down and there will be no more need for US troops in Iraq on January 31st seriously needs to get their head examined.


Time will tell, though of course you're right.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
you know, Iraq has never had anything other than a strongman leader, you can go all the way back to Hammurabi and Sargon of Akkad if you want.

maybe they like it
Reply #6 from PolMach Forums Top
I like the "partial democracy" Abbas and Bush are supporting - let's keep the dissension to a minimum and pretend we really have a working democracy. What crap!
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like the "partial democracy" Abbas and Bush are supporting - let's keep the dissension to a minimum and pretend we really have a working democracy. What crap!


That's it, in a nutshell. Continuation of the Bush and neocon fantasy that everything is going well (tell that to the Iraqi families of the dead and maimed), according to plan (what plan?) and that the Iraqis are electing their own chosen leader (rather than a US puppet). Oh sure. The Iraqis are stupid enough to buy that, right? After all, they're not Americans, right?

WRONG
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
The issuer for me is will what follows the election and how that will impact our ability to get out of that HELL.

We could see our troops in the center of a three way civil war. Lets pray that does not happen. I hope we have learned in the future that we can not go into that part of the world with the reasons Bush used!
Reply #9 from PolMach Forums Top
Interim Allawi (the Bush appointee before Abbas) hinted at this partial democracy during the heat of the election, guess the trial balloon went over well enough for people to buy it.

Tell you what, next election we have, let's leave out a whole region of the U.S., say, the midwest, then let's pretend that we're having a real election.

Seriously, what the fuck?
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Tell you what, next election we have, let's leave out a whole region of the U.S., say, the midwest, then let's pretend that we're having a real election.