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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Black Elk" |
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31 Jan 2005 07:28:11 PM |
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Iraq's New Bushocracy: If you don't vote you don't eat!! |
January 31, 2005
Some Just Voted for Food
Inter Press Service
Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (IPS) - Voting in Baghdad was linked with receipt of food
rations, several voters said after the Sunday poll.
Many Iraqis said Monday that their names were marked on a list provided by
the government agency that provides monthly food rations before they were
allowed to vote.
"I went to the voting centre and gave my name and district where I lived to
a man," said Wassif Hamsa, a 32-year-old journalist who lives in the
predominantly Shia area Janila in Baghdad. "This man then sent me to the
person who distributed my monthly food ration."
Mohammed Ra'ad, an engineering student who lives in the Baya'a district of
the capital city reported a similar experience.
Ra'ad, 23, said he saw the man who distributed monthly food rations in his
district at his polling station. "The food dealer, who I know personally of
course, took my name and those of my family who were voting," he said. "Only
then did I get my ballot and was allowed to vote."
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http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/hard_news/000192.php
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They Knew...
Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned
before the war that its Iraq claims were weak
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
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"From the brief time that we did spend occupying Iraqi territory
after the war, I am certain that had we taken all of Iraq, we would
have been like the dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there,
and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of
the occupation. This is a burden I am sure the beleaguered
American taxpayer would not have been happy to take on."
- Norman Schwarzkopf, from his 1993 autobiography, "It Doesn't
Take a Hero."
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www.iraqbodycount.net
www.costofwar.com
http://icasualties.org/oif/
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| User: "Todd Grigsby" |
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| Title: Re: Iraq's New Bushocracy: If you don't vote you don't eat!! |
02 Feb 2005 03:29:30 PM |
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Black Elk wrote:
January 31, 2005
Ra'ad, 23, said he saw the man who distributed monthly food rations in his
district at his polling station. "The food dealer, who I know personally of
course, took my name and those of my family who were voting," he said. "Only
then did I get my ballot and was allowed to vote."
Ok, hang on. I gotta throw a red flag on that one. When I went to vote
last November, the guy running the ballot box works at a local shoe
store. Are you implying that those that didn't vote in 2004 won't be
allowed to purchase shoes? I don't see anything in that report that
says that people who didn't vote are claiming they are being denied food.
TG
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