Timely Iraq Vote a Point of Pride
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For an administration that likes to make the trains run on time, the Jan. 30 elections scheduled in Iraq are light at the end of a dark and violent tunnel.
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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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With Iraq's crucial election coming up on Jan. 30, people still have strikingly different views on the vote.
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Iknow, there&#39;s only one issue that matters in this presidential contest, the war in Iraq. But just in case some voters are willing to look at a domestic issue offering a crystal clear difference between President Bush and Sen.
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Iraqis around the world streamed into polling stations Sunday for their last chance to cast ballots in Iraq's historic election, expressing hopes that the vote will bring peace and stability to their homeland.
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I know, there&#39;s only one issue that matters in this presidential contest, the war in Iraq. But just in case some voters are willing to look at a domestic issue offering a crystal clear
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Newspapers around Europe hailed the holding of elections in Iraq, with many praising the courage of those who turned out to vote but also wondering whether the results would make any difference.
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Security guards look over posters promoting the upcoming Iraqi national elections in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, Nov. 1, 2004. Voter registration for the January balloting officially began Monday.
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If only the United States would show as much faith in Afghanistan as the people who voted in that country&#39;s first presidential election.
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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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Judging by the statements of those who have the power to decide, an election will be held in Iraq on January 31 - come what may. Despite calls for a six-month delay from Iraqi political parties involved
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From Moscow to Paris to London, world leaders are applauding the Iraqi vote. Russian President Vladmir Putin says the elections were "a step in the right direction" for Iraq.
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In Iraq, a sense of a long slog ahead. At home on the campaign trail, hints of victory or prompt exit.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla., Sept. 30 -- It was no surprise that Iraq dominated the first debate between President Bush and Democratic challenger John F. Kerry on Thursday night, but rarely have the differences between the two men -- and the choices for the country -- been stated so clearly and with such passion.
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For the White House, Thursday&#39;s visit by Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi couldn&#39;t have been more timely. Just as President Bush&#39;s relentlessly optimistic campaign-trail spin on Iraq was coming under
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The war over the war is almost over. Courtesy of the large turnout in Iraq's election a week ago, the United States and key European allies are beginning to make up after two years of bitterly strained ...
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WASHINGTON - Offering a simple, "Thank you America," Iraqi interim prime minister Ayad Allawi declared Thursday that his country is moving successfully past the war that ousted Saddam Hussein and vowed that elections will take place next year as scheduled.   "Elections will occur in Iraq on time in January because Iraqis want elections on time," Allawi told a joint meeting of Congress, an appearance that President Bush's advisers hoped would ease American voters' doubts about the troubled campaign in Iraq...