GW really doesn't have a handle on numbers. First he called the slimmest plurality for a re-election in recent memory a "resounding mandate" to go ahead with his deluded agenda. Now he's quick to call the Iraqi elections an "overwhelming success." As usual he's full of shit.
Fact A: Government targets for a voting "success" were 50% turnout. For a country that is having their first democratic elections in decades, I don't know that that can really be called a "success".
Fact B: As expected, it's all Shi'ite voters. Half-way democratic elections is like being half pregnant: it just doesn't work. It's an all or nothing thing. If you have an election where the minority party doesn't vote, that's not really an election, now is it? It's more of an excuse for the majority party to take power. And that kind of situation doesn't so much lead to peaceful coexistence as it does to...what's the word I'm looking for?...civil war. Incidentally, the estimated turnout right now is at about 60%. Care to guess what percentage of the population the Shi'ites are? (I'll give you a hint: it's 60%).
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