Well, this year to make democracy simple in George Bush’s Iraqi Kingdom (you know, the Kingdom he’s says we’ve won in, even though we’re occupying this country and the bombings & violence continue), on the ballet this year the Iraqis will be choosing from 14,500 candidates for 440 seats. Yep! You heard it right! Democracy is meant to confuse, apparently, in George Bush’s Kingdom, because really without the necessary confusion, lying, and bullshit, George Bush wouldn’t want to ‘retire’ to Iraq since it’s such a buddy democracy! Spit.
From McClatchy Washington Bureau:
BAGHDAD — Iraqi voters next month will see 14,500 candidates vie for 440 open seats on provincial councils, an outpouring of interest in a new phase of Iraqi self-government that could make for a baffling ballot.
The Jan. 31 poll will be the first in a series of votes in Iraq next year that include elections in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, a national referendum on the new U.S.-Iraq security pact and nationwide parliamentary elections.
The provincial council elections will bring new blood into local governing bodies that were filled by political blocs in Iraq’s 2005 elections. They’ll also give national parties a local toehold to advance their agendas.
14,500 candidates, wow!
Sadly only the candidates who support the US occupancy and the US puppet government will be selected…oops I mean elected.
Damn, they really do have a democracy!
Rant On:
We’ve been told that the reason members of congress get paid a $165,000.00 salary while working a part time is because they could make so much more in the private sector.
Perhaps members of congress should only get paid a $50,000.00 salary, this way REAL Americans would run for congress and all of the elites/lawyers/aristocrats/blue bloods would remain in the private sector.
Rant Off:
I suppose the only ones who make it into government will be people “we” approve of to start with….I doubt they will be allowed to vote anybody in who does not tow the line with us.
Hopefully, Barack Hussein Obama can repair some of our bad relations with the rest of our planet, which really went downhill under Bush/Cheney.
Harold Pinter, the Nobel Laureate playwright who died yesterday once said, “While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.”
Eartha Kitt, the renowned song stylist who died also yesterday at age 81, was “Dixie Chicked” and her career almost ruined in the U.S. making her move to France to survive. She made the mistake of attending a White House dinner and over a microphone, said, “You [Johnson administration] send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.” Reportedly this remark made Lady Bird cry.
A decade later President Jimmy Carter invited Eartha Kitt back to the White House and her career took off again in this country. Although being treated for 2 years for colon cancer, she was performing up until two months ago and already was booked for 2009 engagements. Strong women like Eartha, Tina Turner (69 and presently on a grueling tour), and Lena Horne seem to go on and on, performing until the end. Horne, now 91, made her last recording and public appearance in 2000 at age 83.
Thanks Grant. There are many strong women who go forward even amongst the biggest roadblocks.