Comments on: SOTU: What Bush Doesn’t Mention About Iraq’s Elections http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-what-bush-doesnt-mention-about-iraqs-elections/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:43:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Larry Howard http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-what-bush-doesnt-mention-about-iraqs-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-434399 Larry Howard Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:52:41 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-what-bush-doesnt-mention-about-iraqs-elections/#comment-434399 President Bush did have a plan for locally elected city councils and other local leaders to elect the transitional assembly in early 2005. This is the plan that they were forced to changed. They like many in our congress and others around the world did not feel that the security situation in January of 2005 would produce an election that would be safe and include representatives from many of the more insecure parts of Iraq. The January 2005 election was a wonderful event but many of those that are opposed to the war in Iraq used the low turn-out due to fear in some areas to try to make that election look bad. This is all irrelavent to the election of December 15, 2005 underthe new constitution. President Bush did have a plan for locally elected city councils and other local leaders to elect the transitional assembly in early 2005. This is the plan that they were forced to changed. They like many in our congress and others around the world did not feel that the security situation in January of 2005 would produce an election that would be safe and include representatives from many of the more insecure parts of Iraq. The January 2005 election was a wonderful event but many of those that are opposed to the war in Iraq used the low turn-out due to fear in some areas to try to make that election look bad. This is all irrelavent to the election of December 15, 2005 underthe new constitution.

]]> By: lib4 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-what-bush-doesnt-mention-about-iraqs-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-433410 lib4 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:42:57 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-what-bush-doesnt-mention-about-iraqs-elections/#comment-433410 This is really a key point that no one really harps on....time and time again with all the negative reports coming out of Iraq the one thing the Republicans/Neo-Cons fall back on (really the only thing they can fall back on) is that the Iraqis had "free and fair elections" I bet the American public would like to know that the White House intially wanted to spread democracy to the Middle East by appointing "their" guy Chalabi.... The entire Republican party is a fraud This is really a key point that no one really harps on….time and time again with all the negative reports coming out of Iraq the one thing the Republicans/Neo-Cons fall back on (really the only thing they can fall back on) is that the Iraqis had “free and fair elections”

I bet the American public would like to know that the White House intially wanted to spread democracy to the Middle East by appointing “their” guy Chalabi….

The entire Republican party is a fraud

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-what-bush-doesnt-mention-about-iraqs-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-432765 Marie Wed, 01 Feb 2006 02:33:24 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/31/sotu-what-bush-doesnt-mention-about-iraqs-elections/#comment-432765 LIke he was against the 9/11 commission before he was for it. Flip-flop. LIke he was against the 9/11 commission before he was for it.
Flip-flop.

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