Bush says Iraqis must vote...or else.....

[rfranklin]

(Gee, this self-determination stuff doesn't leave the Iraqis with much choice!)


Bush Firm On Iraq Election Date

Dec. 2, 2004



(CBS/AP) President Bush said Thursday that Iraq's elections must not be delayed from their scheduled date of Jan. 30, rejecting calls from more than a dozen political parties there to postpone them until security at the polls can be ensured.

"It's time for Iraqi citizens to go to the polls," Mr. Bush told reporters in the Oval Office.

Mr. Bush said last week he hoped the elections scheduled for next month in Iraq are not postponed, after 17 political parties in Iraq called on the interim government to put them off for at least six months. Those groups want security at polling places to be ensured.

Thursday, he was more forceful in his remarks on the matter.

"The elections should not be postponed," he said. "It's time for the Iraqi citizens to go to the polls and that's why we are very firm on the Jan. 30 date."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml

[bowens43]

1. They better vote

or we're liable to do some more liberating on their asses.

[motely36]

2. He sounds pretty desparate

Let it blow up in his face.

[Larkspur]

3. Sistani agrees and wants his Shiites to vote en mass

and what will Bush do when Sistani and the Shiites tell Bush to get out of Iraq?

[Webster Green]

4. Vote or die!

Democracy is a beautiful thing!

[ooglymoogly]

5. them eyraky's better vote or we'll break down their doors

and drag em out and pore napalm on em and buldose their houses. they stat fukn with me and i'll nuke em.

[ernstbass]

6. Do ya think

there is any way we could get chimpie to go and work the polls? He could get a military flight!!