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Certainly the case is made that some, within a foundation of solid
reasoning, may be reluctant to vote due to American occupation. Alas,
the issue would seem more complex. Add to recalcitrance the general
sense of fear that, if one was to vote, one may have one's throat slit
by one's own countrymen. Bogeymen are at the door. Who wishes to
answer?<br>
<br>
Dave Budge<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Tbertruss@aol.com">Tbertruss@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>
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All:<br>
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If you were considering voting in an election under military
occupation, a military that goes house to house breaking down doors at
gun point to arrest those suspected of opposing said military, arrests
occurring in a legal vacuum with no guarantees of habeas corpus, or
access to courts and lawyers offering a guaranteed defense of suspects,
where the occupying military was known to torture suspects, would you
feel free to vote in any manner to oppose the occupying forces?<br>
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And now on to more reality based discussion of the Iraq "election."
Read below.<br>
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4 p.m. ET -- Tuesday, February 1, 2005 <br>
<br>
Aftermath of Iraqi Voting: <br>
<br>
ANTONIA JUHASZ, <br>
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<a href="javascript:ol('http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21100');">http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/21100</a><br>
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Juhasz wrote the recent article "Of Oil And Elections." She said today:
"The front-runner for the new Prime Minister of Iraq is Adel Abdul
Mahdi, Iraq's current Finance Minister who announced on Dec. 21 that
his government was hoping to privatize its oil and that this would be
'very promising to the American investors and to American enterprise,
certainly to oil companies.' ... Mahdi's party, the United Iraqi
Alliance, the leading Shia political party, is expected to win the
majority of votes once they are tallied, particularly given the fact
that, as reported by AP, polls were largely deserted in cities across
the Sunni Triangle, particularly Fallujah, Ramadi and Beiji. In the
Sunni area of Azamiyah, the neighborhood's four polling centers did not
open at all." Juhasz is project director at the International Forum on
Globalization and a Foreign Policy In Focus scholar. <br>
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V2020 Post by Ted Moffett<br>
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