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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:54 PM
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Has anyone noticed...
First the administration claimed we liberated 25 million Iraqis and slowly the number has gone up. They now say 27 million or 28 million! Same with the percentage of Iraqis who voted. First it was 58%, then 60%, now it's up to 63%. Nobody ever questions these numbers. I wonder why!
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wtbymark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 04:59 PM
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1. They don't know how many citizens are in Iraq
With the shake and bake of Faluja and all, they have no clue how many civilians are in country. So they make up some arbitrary number - who cares, just give'em a number- a big one. "We're makin' progress, stay the course" yup yup yup, where's my bone? :sarcasm:
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 05:25 PM
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4. Yup. They make up the numbers...
to their advantage. Now I remember they said the first elections had a 60% turn out, but in the last election they wanted it to seem improved so they said in the last election 58% voted and this time 60% and then 63% voted.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 05:05 PM
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2. It's all spin all the time...
Edited on Thu Dec-08-05 05:06 PM by stillcool47
There is nothing that anyone in this administration says that can in any way be attributed to truth. After lying as a way of life for so many years, they can't handle the truth.
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ucmike Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 05:11 PM
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3. because its been such a success that iraqis have nothing to do
now but breed and vote?
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Humor_In_Cuneiform Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 05:36 PM
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5. Anyone who believes anything that comes from this admin,
hasn't been paying attention.

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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 05:47 PM
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6. That would be...
nearly 40% of the country. That's a lot of dumb people.
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Humor_In_Cuneiform Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-08-05 06:00 PM
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7. Dumb or uninformed or uninformable, yep. n/t
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