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anyone know where i can find one? preferably in english. i'm kind of interested to see all 150 or so parties/lists that are running. and i want to see which of the various iraqi communist parties are running and which are boycotting. but my internet prowess is not up to the task so far. and that's where you lot come in.

I doubt the communist parties will do very well in a heavily muslim country like Iraq. I tried to find one but couldn't. Maybe I'll try again.

I doubt the communist parties will do very well in a heavily muslim country like Iraq. I tried to find one but couldn't. Maybe I'll try again.

they will probably do fairly well between them. they are actually rather well established - the iraqi communist party is the oldest political party in iraq, and one of the only secular ones not being run from the united states. iraq isn't all islamic fundies. pre-saddam, the icp was one of the major players in the country.

though now there are like a dozen split-off parties, which is why i want to see a ballot. i can't keep track of them all. stupid left - always splitting into a million little factions with ever more eleborate acronyms.

I hope this helps you

http://www.electionworld.org/iraq.htm

I hope this helps you

http://www.electionworld.org/iraq.htm

that whole site is great, but alas, no help for my current problem

Have you checked the US Governments website?

Have you checked the US Governments website?

not as such. but googling hasn't given me much to go off of, so i wouldnt know where to start.

not as such. but googling hasn't given me much to go off of, so i wouldnt know where to start.


I tried it on google and all I got was those ballots with either Saddam or "I want myself and my family to die".

I tried it on google and all I got was those ballots with either Saddam or "I want myself and my family to die".

yeah. with a bit of refined searching i found an ap photo of part of one written in arabic.

you'd think that somebody would make these things publicly available.

I can explain
1. US kept the paper secret so the Sunnis don't go killing every candidate
2. Not published in Internet (as any nutcase Sunni might find it)
3. It's going to be in Arabic anyway (unless you can read Arabic)

I can explain
1. US kept the paper secret so the Sunnis don't go killing every candidate
2. Not published in Internet (as any nutcase Sunni might find it)
3. It's going to be in Arabic anyway (unless you can read Arabic)

it is my understanding that the ballots do not list the names of individuals, just the names of parties/lists. it is also my understanding that there are ballots written in arabic, kurdish, and english, to cover the major languages spoken by elegible voters, including thousands who have lived almost all of their lives in the united states and europe.

i could be wrong though.

anyone know where i can find one? preferably in english. i'm kind of interested to see all 150 or so parties/lists that are running. and i want to see which of the various iraqi communist parties are running and which are boycotting. but my internet prowess is not up to the task so far. and that's where you lot come in.
Electing a communist government would be the best form of protest vote going and certainly would cause Bush a little bit of embarrassment?

Electing a communist government would be the best form of protest vote going and certainly would cause Bush a little bit of embarrassment?

It would depend on how it handled it. If he said "The will of the Iraqi people have spoken and accepted it." People wouldn't know what to say.

A commie goverment is not really the threat anymore. I think people are more bothered by a theocratic goverment. Especially with the boogyman Islamic terrorist these days....

bump

Is there an Iraqi Libertarian Party?

stupid left - always splitting into a million little factions with ever more eleborate acronyms.
:D
Hah, its like what the socialist comedian Mark Steel said with regards to Karl Marx putting 'fish' on a questionairre for his favorite food.

"I bet that mas caused at least one major split in the communist movement. Over whether he was talking about halibut or cod"

well, i found sites with the arabic lists. guess its time learn some arabic. though i'm sure i read somewhere that there were going to be kurdish and english versions too. maybe they're on these sites too, and i just missed them.

http://www.ieciraq.org/English/Frameset_english.htm
http://www.iraqocv.org/php/index.php?lang=eng

:D
Hah, its like what the socialist comedian Mark Steel said with regards to Karl Marx putting 'fish' on a questionairre for his favorite food.

"I bet that mas caused at least one major split in the communist movement. Over whether he was talking about halibut or cod"


it was trout, you imperialist reactionary capitalist running dog

this pdf file, List of Candidates - 3 Languages (http://www.iraqocv.org/php/downloads/List%20of%20candidates%20-%203%20languages.pdf) is just misleading. bastards.

The ballot paper I got yesterday was huge. Like 3 A4 sheets put next to each other. In case you're wondering, I voted 169, the Unified Iraqi Coalition, or something along those lines...my Arabic is crap ;)

This site has a listing of parties, but not an official ballot.

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3559923

click on the little picture under the first paragraph.

It does have a listing of leading personalities in each party.