From Truth About Iraqis
My Two centsIt is worrisome that those who want to partake in the process and vote 'no' are being given the runaround by a government keen on seeing 'yes'.
Also, Riverbend alluded to something I wrote last week, which many of the Iraqi bloggers are picking up just now. None of the Iraqi diaspora are allowed to vote.
I went to the Iraqi embassy in this Arab capital and the second (or was it third) secretary said "Maku taswiit". No voting.
Khosh. It's because an overwhelming majority of Iraqis abroad would have voted "no".
Then you ask yourself, when 4-5 million people are removed from the voting process, is it really an exercise in democracy or thuggery?
That's what so many Americans can't understand. Not one media outlet has written about Iraqis abroad being prohibited from voting. Not one.
Why? Last January, they couldn't get enough of showing the blue-inked thumbs of Iraqis abroad.
That's why I oppose this sham of a draft constitution and the shameful conduct of a government that has pushed me and millions of other Iraqis of all sects and religious affiliations to the curbs.
Citing financial reasons is absurd - can Virginia be barred from a national vote because it doesn't have the finances?
Also, firing on people voting is just criminal. I think the draft constitution itself is criminal, poorly written and hastily jumbled up to satisfy political pressures from abroad. But to fire on people who are either voting 'yes' or 'no' is just reprehensible.
It serves nothing but to shed Iraqi blood and cause further strife in an already war-ravaged nation.
Clearly, the intelligence units of several neighboring countries are busy today.
