The Iraqi Election

[MisterCornell]

Good read from Steve Sailer, a conservative non-neocon Republican who has opposed the Iraq War since day 1.

http://www.isteve.com/

Who won in Iraq? In answer to my question, a reader sends this picture of happy Iraqi voters celebrating the presumed winner, and comments:

Answer: The guys who look like the Mullahs in Iran won. And that fact is why the "winners" aren't being shown on American TV. We won't want to give the "American people" the wrong idea, for example, that we wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives in Iraq to install in power Mullahs who hate our guts and reject every aspect of American civilization.

It's too bad all these Mullahs look alike. That makes it difficult to distinguish between the good democratic Mullahs we're handing power to in Iraq and the bad non-democratic Mullahs we're trying to overthrow in Iran.

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BTW, the Frumster said on MSNBC that Bush's triumph in Iraq has emboldened him to call out the Iranian Mullahs now that Powell and Armitage (he didn't name Powell but did Armitage & the State Dept) aren't around to control the President of the World.

FRUM claimed that Iran isn't a real democracy as Armitage claimed, because the Mullahs decide who gets to run for office and a judicial system is in place that is out of reach of popular control. Hmmm, sounds kinda like the USA to me (and of course our social democratic friends in Europe).



Maybe Frum also thinks we should bomb Belgium because its court system outlawed the popular Vlaams Blok party.

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As far as Medieval Shi'ite Ayatollahs go, Sistani seems like a pretty open-minded guy. For example, his Sistani.org website offers his decrees in handy question and answer format:



Question: My wife has said the phrase ?Amin? in her prayer for years. Recently she discovered that saying this invalidates the prayer. Does she have to make up all of these incorrect prayers due to the fact that she said ?Amino??

Answer: No need to make up for offered prayers.



See? He's practically an ACLU member.


Question: Can a Muslim Listen to music?

Answer: It is permissible to listen to music which is not fit for diversion and play.



My favorite kind! I guess Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" must be big in Baghdad.



Question: Is playing a chess allowed?

Answer: It is absolutely unlawful.



Question: Is having an orgy permissible under the Qur?an?

Answer: It's forbidden.



But, perhaps not quite as absolutely as playing a chess.



Question: Are shaking of hands with girls allowed?

Answer: It is not permissible.



Handshaking can lead to playing a chess, you know.



Question: What is the Islamic viewpoint on adoption?

Answer: There is no objection in adoption, but he/she is Stranger and is not one's real child.



Ah, democracy!

 

[Czar]

the reason they havent shown the winners is because the counting isnt done, they said shortly before the elections it would take about 10 days

 

[alchemize]

I do recall reading somewhere that Sistani said while anal sex with your wife is discouraged, is permitted.

So no chess! but anal OK.