{"id":757,"date":"2005-02-02T11:48:31","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=757"},"modified":"2005-02-02T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T18:48:31","slug":"iraq-decides-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/02\/02\/iraq-decides-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Decides 2005."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003207\"><\/a>I say this with a tad bit of cynicism, but&#8230; You do realize that there were plenty of photographs and video of Iraqis celebrating their last election (and the one before that, and the one before that) where 99.99% of the vote went to Saddam Hussein?<\/p>\n<p>See&#8230; it&#8217;s better that there was an election and it&#8217;s better that Iraqis showed up for the thing, but in the end&#8230; I don&#8217;t know what the damned thing meant.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve known that the three victors were going to be (ahem): the Compliant Fawning Kurdistan Party, Allawi Sunni Review and Variety Party, and the Shiites Love America Party&#8230; The various other parties (from the AAA Aardvark Party to the Zygote Liberation Party mentioned in a prior post of mine)?  Well, there is a certain absurdity to the proceedings.  In America, at least the Natural Law Party and Constitution Party get some showing on C-SPAN, and don&#8217;t go around the nation with anonymous cloaks.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution has been written already.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I think we actually may just have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6802629\/site\/newsweek\/\">an exit strategy<\/a> ready to go.  Coupled with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/?050124fa_fact\">an Enterance Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; now is the time, in some afterglow of high ideals and before some things drag back into the forefront, for Army Recruiters to run around the nation&#8217;s economically troubled high school and college campuses, because&#8230; you know&#8230; when the Draft comes, it&#8217;s best to have a few fewer slots to be filled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/vote-for-food.html\">Mia Gawd<\/a>, Everyone hates Raed&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say this with a tad bit of cynicism, but&#8230; You do realize that there were plenty of photographs and video of Iraqis celebrating their last election (and the one before that, and the one before that) where 99.99% of the vote went to Saddam Hussein? See&#8230; it&#8217;s better that there was an election and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}