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EvilDr.Frog
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Perhaps you have seen the news of a high voter turnout in Iraq, and that gives you cause to celebrate. But, unlike you, I am not dancing around and clapping. I am a stick in the mud and a Scrooge (like most critics of the war). Consider these news reports:
AP writer:
Fox News:
AP writer:
No more than 400 people voted in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, and in the heavily Sunni northern Baghdad neighborhood of Azamiyah, where Saddam made his last known public appearance in early April 2003, the four polling places never even opened.
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Many cities in the Sunni triangle north and west of the capital, particularly Fallujah, Ramadi and Beiji, were virtually empty of voters also.
A low Sunni turnout, if that turns out to be the case, could undermine the new government that will emerge from the vote and worsen tensions among the country's ethnic, religious and cultural groups.
Fox News:
Are these the signs of a promising future for a stable democratic republic?Shiite Muslims, estimated at 60 percent of Iraq's 26 million people, were expected to vote in large numbers, encouraged by clerics who hope their community will gain power after generations of oppression by the Sunni minority.