[lit-ideas] Iraqi Elections
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:00:54 EST
This from a blogger who lives in Iraq (Riverbend, for those of you who
know).
_http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/_ (http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/)
<<It feels like just about everyone who can is going to leave the country
before the elections. They say the borders between Syria and Jordan might be
closed a week before elections so people are rushing to get packed and get
out.
Many families are simply waiting for their school-age children to finish
mid-year finals or college exams so they can leave. >>
She also has this to say (I'd be interested if any of you saw anything about
the "Duelfer Report", particularly before U.S. elections? I had not....):
<<This was an interesting piece of news a couple of days ago:
_The United States has ended its physical search for weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) in Iraq, which was cited by the first administration of
President
George W Bush as the main reason for invading the country, the White House
has said. _ (http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13647921)
Why does this not surprise me? Does it surprise anyone? I always had the
feeling that the only people who actually believed this war was about weapons
of
mass destruction were either paranoid Americans or deluded expatriate
Iraqis- or a combination of both. I wonder now, after hundreds and hundreds of
Americans actually died on Iraqi soil and over a hundred-thousand Iraqis are
dead, how Americans view the current situation. I have another question- the
article mentions a "Duelfer Report" stating the weapons never existed and all
the
intelligence was wrong. This report was supposedly published in October
2004. The question is this: was this report made public before the elections?
Did
Americans actually vote for Bush with this knowledge?>>
Julie Krueger
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