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Yahoo! News - 90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote
by Decius at 2:33 am EDT, Aug 2, 2004 |
] Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for
] landmark October elections, the United Nations (news -
] web sites) said Sunday, a resounding endorsement of a
] democratic experiment supposed to help Afghanistan (news
] - web sites) turn its back on years of debilitating war. |
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RE: Yahoo! News - 90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote
by IconoclasT at 7:01 pm EDT, Aug 2, 2004 |
Decius wrote:
] ] Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for
] ] landmark October elections, the United Nations (news -
] ] web sites) said Sunday, a resounding endorsement of a
] ] democratic experiment supposed to help Afghanistan (news
] ] - web sites) turn its back on years of debilitating war. I hope it is true but I remember something like 100% voter participation and everyone unanimously voting for Saddam in Iraq (back in the day). |
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90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote
by noteworthy at 8:41 am EDT, Aug 2, 2004 |
Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for landmark October elections, the United Nations said Sunday, a resounding endorsement of a democratic experiment supposed to help Afghanistan turn its back on years of debilitating war. ... except when the Afghan news media report that candidates are "sniping" at each other, they aren't referring to verbal attacks. WSJ ran a good week-in-review-style article last week entitled something like "Good news from Afghanistan" in which the reporters highlighted a litany of positive developments in the country. |
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RE: 90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote
by Vile at 8:07 pm EDT, Aug 2, 2004 |
noteworthy wrote:
] Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for landmark
] October elections, the United Nations said Sunday, a
] resounding endorsement of a democratic experiment supposed
] to help Afghanistan turn its back on years of debilitating
] war.
]
]
] ... except when the Afghan news media report that candidates
] are "sniping" at each other, they aren't referring to verbal
] attacks.
]
] WSJ ran a good week-in-review-style article last week entitled
] something like "Good news from Afghanistan" in which the
] reporters highlighted a litany of positive developments in the
] country. What are you recommending here? Seems like nothing. I could go to a news site for this sort of thing. Please enlighten me to something I may not already know. And who are these eligible afghans, anyway? The twenty people who have addresses? |
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90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote
by Vile at 2:57 am EDT, Aug 3, 2004 |
Contrary to his name, Noteworthy does not contribute anything noteworthy to this! your meme sucks, bro!Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for landmark October elections, the United Nations said Sunday, a resounding endorsement of a democratic experiment supposed to help Afghanistan turn its back on years of debilitating war. ... except when the Afghan news media report that candidates are "sniping" at each other, they aren't referring to verbal attacks. WSJ ran a good week-in-review-style article last week entitled something like "Good news from Afghanistan" in which the reporters highlighted a litany of positive developments in the country. |
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