Fafblog on the Iraq elections

Fafblog, one of my favorite satirical sites, has a scorching and unfortunately accurate take on the Iraq election:

VICTOREEEEEEEEE! After nineteen years of bombs and wars and torture and bombs and torture and ethnic cleansing and torture, America's mission in Iraq has finally been re-reaccomplished through the miracle of symbolic purple-fingered brown people! Oh sure, all the cynics and the critics and the nattering nabobs of payingattentionism will say "Oh but Giblets haven't we had five or six of these already, what makes these purple fingers different from previous purple fingers" and the answer to that is shut up. These purple fingers are the most purplest-fingeriest purple fingers to ever have been symbolically purpled! They stand as unique and compelling evidence of our nation's sincere generational commitment to transform a brutal impoverished dictatorship into a brutal, more impoverished dictatorship by freeing Iraq from the deadly menace of Iraqis.

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failix

I’m sorry but that’s just one of the least funny and most stupid anti-war satire I’ve ever read.
Anonymous

Lame. Real lame. Millions of Iraqis risked their lives and voted. Maybe they only did that because they felt that voting would be better than not voting. But they felt that strongly enough to risk their lives and vote, and for that they deserve respect. Fafblog should have found a better target here.
Nadreck

In some ways better elections than we have in Canada:

- The turnout rate is higher despite the greater difficulty in getting to the polls alive.
- They get a proportional voting system instead of the crappy first-past-the-post system
- There are so many international observers and auditors that the fraud rate is probably lower. I speak as a returning officer in the last three elections.

Plus, when their government has a problem they don’t get to dissolve parliament to go and watch the Olympics. We can only dream of a cool system like that!
Anonymous

That has got to be the dumbest thing I have read today, but I guess its early still. Way to trivialize and tear down something that is actually kind of cool.
cabalo’a

It would have been better if it was funny. Or satirical.