Chalabi nets 0.36% of the vote in Iraqi elections!!!

[TheGunslinger]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10575121

WASHINGTON - Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi appears to have suffered a humiliating defeat at the recent Iraq polls, according to the uncertified preliminary results.

The news comes just a month after Chalabi had conducted a tour of Washington in an effort to patch up his tattered image in America. Paperwork shows that in November Chalabi’s Washington representative hired a powerful D.C. lobbying firm.

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Preliminary results in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad indicate that Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress scored a minuscule 0.36 percent of the votes.

Out of almost 2.5 million voters in Baghdad, only 8,645 voted for Chalabi.

In the Shiite city of Basra, the results indicate he had an equally dismal showing of 0.34 percent of the vote.

In the violent Sunni province of Anbar, 113 people voted for him.

This just might explain the paucity of coverage of the Iraq elections in the days following the election. The US isn't happy...isn't happy at all with the election results. They figured the hundreds of billions of dollars spent surely would have bought them an election. They should have had Diebold in control of the voting bins. Guess the Iraqis told the PNAC/INC cabal to FVCK OFF and went with an Iran-lite party.

[tularetom]

1. Geez, WTF did we expect?

Wasn't he the asswipe who told us we'd be greeted with flowers and parades and have staues of * all over the country?

[aquart]

2. How much money did we give this guy?

[tularetom]

3. I don't know but

I think we kept supporting him even after it was determined he had ties to the ruling fundamentalists in Iran. We never fucking learn.

[TheGunslinger]

5. At least $40 million (and enough clout to pressure Jordan to drop charges)

[Enraged_Ape]

13. And arrested for being an Iranian spy to boot!

I guess the Iraqis, unlike people in our country, have a problem with a scumbag criminal gangster being elected to high office.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Too funny.......this administration really knows how to pick 'em.

3 years in Iraq and we have a real pulse on the sentiment of the Iraqi people....what a joke this administration is.

[regnaD kciN]

6. But did the administration really want Ahmed?

Sure, they did back in 2003, but it seems like the relationship was ended by Washington's charging him with being an Iranian agent a few months ago. There was no sign his visit to the U.S. this fall succeeded in rehabilitating him in the eyes of the White House.

If anything, I think BushCo would probably be just as happy if, granting that the elections will probably produce a pro-Iranian Shi'ite radical as Iraq's new leader, it not be the one that Americans will remember them touting a couple of years ago.

[guidod]

7. You know it won't be a secular

government.  It'll be more like ours, a dictatorship.

[Skink]

8. Isn't .36 within the margin for a recount?

Get Baker out there now!!

[warbly]

9. should've given the contract to Diebold

i really wonder that they didn't seem to try to manipulate the
polling there.

[bklyncowgirl]

10. Yeah, funny we aren't hearing too much about the results.

Democracy's a great thing when you get to show people holding up purple fingers for the cameras. It can be a real bitch when the people vote for the wrong candidates.

How soon before Chalabi and Allawi start screaming about election fraud?

[90-percent]

11. huh?

I don't think he's been "charged" with anything.

He's been getting away with murder and this administration still loves him and lets him visit all the time.

Nothing incriminating has stuck to him, from a prosecution standpoint.

-85%

[TheGunslinger]

12. Both of them ALREADY HAVE cried fraud! Allawi's called it "illegitimate"!!

[formercia]

14. Well, duh he is Bush(ere)'s man

Do you the the Iraquis are stupid enough to vote for an obvious shill.

[Nimrod2005]

15. Had BushCheney not terrorized folks in 2004, they would have had the same