Iraqis Cite Shift in Attitudes Since Vote
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Police and Iraqi National Guardsmen say that they have received more tips from the public, resulting in more arrests and greater effectiveness in their efforts to weaken the violent insurgency rocking the country.
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LONDON -- The day after Iraqis defied the threat of violence and voted by the millions, world leaders from Europe to the Middle East, many of whom had opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, said yesterday the national election was a step forward.
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Some couldn't read, but knew their party's identification number on the ballot. Others couldn't see, but were led to the polls by police. Across wide swathes of Iraq, especially in the southern Shiite and northern Kurdish areas, Iraqis went to the polls Sunday, expressing fierce determination and pride, together with hope that the election will improve their hard lives.
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Most people in this country view the war in Iraq as a separate conflict from the war on terror, polling indicates.
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Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers Sunday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls. Pushed in wheelchairs or carts if they couldn't walk, the elderly, the young and women in veils cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.
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Emotional and jubilant Iraqi  expatriates braved long trips and frigid weather to cast their  votes across the United States on Friday, their enthusiasm  making up for their low numbers.
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BAGHDAD -- Despite renewed attacks on polling places yesterday and continued calls to boycott today's elections, Iraqis lined up this morning to cast ballots for a National Assembly that will begin to put an Iraqi stamp on political and security decisions shaped by the US occupation since the American invasion nearly two years ago.
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New poll of attitudes shows people feel the election is about whether voters have faith in US actions globally.
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Iraqi exiles from Australia to the United States began registering on Monday for elections at the end of the month, many of them voting for the first time in a poll they hope will help bring democracy to their country.
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Some smiled, some were stoic and others  hid their faces as Iraqis went to the polls Sunday, braving  anti-U.S. insurgents determined to drown the historic vote in  blood.
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Despite insurgent attacks, initial reports of strong turnout in Iraq's landmark vote lend air of legitimacy.
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A quarter of a million Iraqi exiles, or  90 percent of those registered, voted abroad in their  homeland's historic election, organizers said on Sunday.
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Washington, Dec. 21 (PTI): A majority of Americans among those who believed at the beginning that the Iraq war would be swift and victorious now think it was a mistake and the January 30 elections to be held in the country would not be honest.
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AMMAN, Jordan -- Iraqi voters living here and flying in from around the Middle East turned out yesterday on the final day of registration for Iraq's historic election, speaking excitedly of freedom and an unwillingness to bend to boycott calls. But turnout remained low.
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For many Iraqis, the talks reaffirmed a widespread loss of faith in the elected governmentÂs ability to turn things around.
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With Iraq's crucial election coming up on Jan. 30, people still have strikingly different views on the vote.
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It is not quite right to say that today is the first time that Iraq's people have had the opportunity to go to the polls.