Casual Observation

4 Comments

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   BooMan on March 7, 2010 at 10:52 am

   Polling stations have closed in Iraq’s parliamentary election, in a vote marred by violence as a series of explosions left at least 38 people dead and 89 others wounded in the capital, Baghdad.

   Millions of people turned out to cast their ballots across the country on Sunday, for the second full parliamentary election since the 2003 US-led invasion.

   About 19 million voters were eligible to choose from more than 6,000 candidates from 86 political groups looking to gain seats in the 325-member assembly.

   But the vote came against a backdrop of deadly attacks.

   The bloodiest toll was from an explosion that destroyed a residential building in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, killing 25 people and wounding at least eight more.

   Initial reports indicated that dynamite was used to blow up the building, the interior ministry official said.

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   Chief on March 7, 2010 at 10:53 am

   Yes and just how many ‘unitary executive’ governments did we set up after WW2?

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   Hurria on March 7, 2010 at 11:28 am

   It is not a bit surprising. Anyone who did not anticipate it is living in a dreamland. And if the Obama administration uses this as an excuse to cancel its troop drawdown as they have threatened to do, then they are not honouring either the Iraqis’ wishes or their own solemn agreement. Nothing new about that, of course.

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   invisible on March 7, 2010 at 9:38 pm

   Yes, the election in Iraq is so very important.  The purple thumbs, oh my god.  The continued dead people really make me think this “war” has a noble cause.

   Booman, I snipe here but I really can’t understand your ridiculous words.  Well,

   I can understand them under certain circumstances, that is.  

   Not a compliment.