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Dec. 16th, 2005 08:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaktwosSo, Iraq had their elections today.
15 million Iraqis were eligible to vote out of a population of 26 million. Of those, 11 million voted.
6,655 candidates ran for 275 parliament seats. 307 parties and 19 coalitions were registered for the ballot.
Interesting times, indeed. I can't fathom trying to keep track of 307 parties. And results in two weeks. I'm sure it was like this in the old days, before I was old enough to vote. But dang!
Here's what Wonkette had to say about Bush's accountability for the bad intel:
Still, with yesterday's inclement weather, we were worried sick about all the traffic accidents that were going to occur as all the people that the President would be firing in the wake of his intelligence revelation would be leaving town at the same time everyone who had lost their job would be returning. Turns out those fears were misplaced. As far as we can tell, those same PNAC clowns who busted out foreign policy Madlibs with Ahmed Chalabi and cut intellgence reports into pretty paper snowflakes are still dancing and juggling and flopping around the Bush White House in their oversized shoes.
This is the brilliance of the twenty-first century: as long as we act like we're taking responsibility, we don't have to learn a damn thing. That's the luxury of an age in which winning in the polls supercedes actual tangible results. Still: don't look back in anger at the intel of yesteryear. It wasn't all bad. That August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing, for example -- that was some pretty hot stuff.
15 million Iraqis were eligible to vote out of a population of 26 million. Of those, 11 million voted.
6,655 candidates ran for 275 parliament seats. 307 parties and 19 coalitions were registered for the ballot.
Interesting times, indeed. I can't fathom trying to keep track of 307 parties. And results in two weeks. I'm sure it was like this in the old days, before I was old enough to vote. But dang!
Here's what Wonkette had to say about Bush's accountability for the bad intel:
Still, with yesterday's inclement weather, we were worried sick about all the traffic accidents that were going to occur as all the people that the President would be firing in the wake of his intelligence revelation would be leaving town at the same time everyone who had lost their job would be returning. Turns out those fears were misplaced. As far as we can tell, those same PNAC clowns who busted out foreign policy Madlibs with Ahmed Chalabi and cut intellgence reports into pretty paper snowflakes are still dancing and juggling and flopping around the Bush White House in their oversized shoes.
This is the brilliance of the twenty-first century: as long as we act like we're taking responsibility, we don't have to learn a damn thing. That's the luxury of an age in which winning in the polls supercedes actual tangible results. Still: don't look back in anger at the intel of yesteryear. It wasn't all bad. That August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing, for example -- that was some pretty hot stuff.
