No Observers for Iraq Election Farce

As further evidence that the upcoming Iraqi 'elections' will be nothing but a farce, note this from today's Washington Post :

". . .There will be no neutral outside group deployed across Iraq to determine whether voters are impeded, ballot boxes are stuffed, any party tries to interfere with the process or votes are counted fairly. No congressional delegation will monitor the polls, and the European Union announced last week that it had declined an invitation from Iraq to send observers. The Carter Center, which has monitored more than 50 elections overseas, also decided not to send observers. . ."

The Sad Reality:

1) This 'election' can logistically be held in barely half the country, because of the actual control over much of the country by insurgents.

2) The parts of the country where a semblance of an 'election' can be held will be done under the threat of almost certain mayhem.

3) It is likely that no one, whether participants or not will accept the outcome.

Who does the Bush administration think it is fooling by going forward here? The frightening specter of civil war looms its head ever higher as this preposterous plan is carried out. All the while the administration hides it's head in the sand!


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