Hope everyone has a properous ’06. Here’s hoping the year 2-0-6 is better than 2-0-5!
Subject: RE: Situation Room
From: “Cafferty, Jack”
Date: Wed, December 21, 2005 12:46 pm
To: kevin@…
That’s not what I said and you are a moron
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From: kevin@…
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:37 PM
You said yesterday, “The election results are in from Iraq, and it doesn’t look good for democracy”.
You are a glorified intern. Will you be reading my e-mail too?
From Transcripts on CNN.com:
Cafferty: “Partial results for the Iraqi elections are in, and at this point things aren’t looking too good for democracy. “
more correspondence:
1:25 PM Jack
Do you see the word “partial?” I also went on to say the results could change and won’t be known until January. What exactly is your point?
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1:33 PM Kevin
My point is that Democracy means a free and fair election not dependent on if the United States likes the results or not.
If the peoples’ voices are heard, then democracy is served.
–Kevin
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1:35 PM Jack
Kevin…don’t you get it. If the religious shi’ites win, they will go to war with the sunnis and the results will be a country very much like Iran or Afghanistan during the Taliban. That is hardly democracy.
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1:51 PM Kevin
I understand your point, if that scenario happens and democracy does not flourish it is because the situation we have created in Iraq is not conducive to democracy.
But my point is that in a TRUE democracy, the people have to be able to choose their destination, and if they choose not to have a democratically elected body, then it is their choice.
I believe in the long run, it is a wrong choice for them to reject democracy, but it’s partially a rejection of US policy in Iraq as well.
They are one of the most secular countries in the Mid-East.
I thought your statement yesterday was contradictory and hysterical.
–Kevin
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1:53 PM Jack
Opinions are like , ahh, noses…everybody has one.
