Reply #10: Every media outlet will toe the party line.

[baldguy]

After weeks of building us up for massive bombings and protests - just in case everything went to hell - the very fact that there isn't as much chaos as predicted is going to be colored as a HUGE victory for the Bush Regime.

No matter that the turnout was about 30-40% - less than an average American election - in SOME areas it was 70, 80, even 90%!!!!! (So an apartment building in the Green Zone had all its residents bused to a polling place under heavy guard, they still turned out at 90%!)

The propagandists will say that the Iraqi election is an outstanding historic success. When the Iraqi Civil War starts two years from now, they'll act surprised and amazed - and won't link Bush's idiotic POLICIES to the destruction.