Iraqis Probe 'Unusually High' Yes Tally
Apparently, the proposed new constitution for Iraq won in an overwhelming plebiscite by the voters of that poor country. No surprise, since the whole procedure was "supervised" by the same people who organized the voting in the last two presidential elections in the United States! These are truly experts at getting the right result (though not with the same near-unanimity achieved by the pollers of the former Brutal Thug Dictator of Iraq).I think it also interesting, in a bizaare sort of way (I was going to use the word outre', but I think it comes from that "Old Europe" somewhere), that people were voting for/against a document that most had not had a chance even to see, much less try to understand. Sort of like the U.S. Congress voting for the end-of-session spending authorization bills. "Can't take the time to read the @#$% things; I have to get back to my district and do some serious campaigning!" Convince the voters that I'm a responsible and trustworthy legislator. Pay no attention to the fact that I'm voting to enact laws I haven't bothered to read.
So, anyway, the People Of Iraq have voted Yes, or at least the Yes votes have been counted in greater number than the No votes.
In other news from Iraq -
Democracy is on the march!
The insurgents are in their last throes!
We can expect more violence in the days ahead!
We don't do body counts!
We killed 70 terrorists!
A sort of a theoretical/mathematical/statistical/human factors question: If we are killing insurgents faster than we are spurring new recruits, How Long before the violence actually goes down?
1 comment:
You said: "people were voting for/against a document that most had not had a chance even to see, much less try to understand". Sort of reminds me of this country where we vote on referrendums that are so complex and most don't read them fully.
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