Iraqi Sunni parties form alliance

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4378712.stm

"The parties urged Iraqis to take part in the polls and to reject any calls for a boycott."

"The victory of the Iraqi people over terrorists"
Iraq's Al-Adalah newspaper

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Let's see if the american press can spin this one the way they've been spinning the others. Surely they will go on and on, wondering and even hoping that the majority of the sunni populous disagrees with this move.

They will surely find someone to rant on about this being a farse.

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Originally Posted by bfp

Let's see if the american press can spin this one the way they've been spinning the others. Surely they will go on and on, wondering and even hoping that the majority of the sunni populous disagrees with this move.
They will surely find someone to rant on about this being a farse.

yea, I keep waitin for that "civil war" they keep predicting.

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Originally Posted by molecule

yea, I keep waitin for that "civil war" they keep predicting.

How I loved the coverage of the Iraqi elections. The primary talking point on CNN and MSNBC: "Today millions of Iraqi's headed to the polls... Where the Sunni's that were interviewed were going to vote 'no'.", followed by a translator translating an ordinary Sunni's outrage at the constitution.

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and you and I are the brainwashed ones here.

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I saw C Amanpour on CNN the Saturday of the vote, and tracked down her transcript:

"Never before did we talk about Sunni, Shia, Kurd," Amanpour directly quoted the man as saying without referring to a tape or any notes. "For many, many years, despite our difficulties, despite the oppression under Saddam Hussein, Iraqis never really talked about their ethnic differences. They were Iraqis first and foremost."

"Many people are very concerned, they say, that it is only since the war that these differences have reared their very ugly heads," she said, adding moments later, "People are very, very concerned about the possibility that somehow in the future their country will lose its unity and will be fragmented."


If this were true, then why did U.S. warplanes spend 12 years patrolling the skies over Northern Iraq to prevent genocide of the Kurds, or over Southern Iraq to protect Shiites as well as Kuwaitis from the same unscrupulous Sunni minority running the country?

This woman is nuts. And to say such a thing on a special day for their country, makes me wonder if this woman lives in the same world as we do.

On a day such as this, you're going to go on international television to say that the election is fragmenting the country?

Such optimism, Christine!

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Originally Posted by molecule

and you and I are the brainwashed ones here.

You are aware that democracy and Islam are incompatible aren't you?