Will the US withdraw in shame from Iraq after the election.

[Lancer]

You'll find out as you get older.

[Heresson]

tell mw...!

[Sava]

going into iraq was a mistake

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove

Does anyone know if the process for the registration of candidates has begun?

Saddam has plans to put his name in the hat.

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14658207&method=full&siteid=106694&headline=saddam--vote-me-in-as-your-president-name_page.html

SADDAM Hussein is planning to stand in elections to reclaim the Iraqi presidency from his jail cell.

The former tyrant - captured in an underground bunker last year - has told advisers that he wants his name on the ballot paper for the January elections.

His legal team were only granted access to the former leader last week, nine months after he was caught.

Hussein, 67, who is no longer in Iraq but in a secret location, has said he is determined to stand as President and put up candidates from his old Ba'ath Party. His lawyer Giovanni di Stefano said there was no chance of his client being tried before the January elections as the Interim Government had hoped.

"It is the intention of his excellency President Saddam Hussein not only to candidate members of the Ba'ath Party in the January elections but to candidate himself as President. Nothing in international law or international jurisprudence precludes that.

Mr di Stefano, who said that Hussein has still not been charged, added: "In light of the worsening situation in Iraq, the instability and lack of leadership it is probable that he would have a majority vote more than sufficient to restore him to the rightful President of Iraq.

"In the last elections he received 98 per cent of the vote and in a recent poll conducted by Gallup on behalf of the state 40 per cent of those polled voted for Saddam to be executed and 42 per cent elected for him to be reinstated as President.

"That was five months ago."

Granted, I didn't want to use the Sunday Mirror, but **** happens. I like the bolded part of the article though.

[Alexander's Horse]

[Kuciwalker]

"In the last elections he received 98 per cent of the vote and in a recent poll conducted by Gallup on behalf of the state 40 per cent of those polled voted for Saddam to be executed and 42 per cent elected for him to be reinstated as President.

Saddamn's even more polarizing than Bush

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse

|Funny, but makes no sense...

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

"In the last elections he received 98 per cent of the vote and in a recent poll conducted by Gallup on behalf of the state 40 per cent of those polled voted for Saddam to be executed and 42 per cent elected for him to be reinstated as President.

Saddamn's even more polarizing than Bush

I am sure you could find 40 in the US wanting to execute Bush

[GePap]

The question should be about the January election in Iraq, not the US ones- if Kerry wins, he won't take office until after they occur, and if Bush wins, well, he will have to do so becuase even if he won't have to run again, his legacy and credibility for the rest of his term would be shatered if he did.

[Ted Striker]

That's a good point and something I hadn't noticed.

That for sure is not the best of timing.

[The Mad Monk]

*Ran across this while looking for threads to "save"*

Originally posted by Agathon
Both elections.

*Polishes his jewelled gloating shorts.

*Gives Agathon a wedgie using his jewelled gloating shorts.*

[child of Thor]

I would imagine there will be a large down sizing of the millitary forces in Iraq at some point. But like in Afghanistan i expect that the us will always try to keep some of its forces in iraq, it makes sense on so many levels?
I dont think you'll see a 'vietnam' withdrawal if this is what the post was posing?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
I am sure you could find 40 in the US wanting to execute Bush

For every 42 who voted for him? No

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
*Gives Agathon a wedgie using his jewelled gloating shorts.*

He deserves it.

[Dis]

bump

I was going to make a new poll, but I didn't want to create yet another Iraq thread.

actually I thought we had a better Iraq poll, but I can't find it. I know they recently did a forum wipe.

I have notice lately on television some liberals backpeddling on the Iraq war. Some are now saying it was a good idea.

I still think the war was a mistake, but I do see some obvious benefits. And I do agree that many people are against the war only because Bush was the one who did it. There would never be this much opposition if clinton had done this.