IRAQI ELECTIONS, VIETNAMESE ELECTIONS

A New York Times blast from the past. From This Modern World:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (1967)-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.

According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.

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It is important to note that the Vietnam war continued for five or six more years after these 1967 elections. Then we lost. Then we left in disgrace. These "successful" elections in Iraq mean nothing. The US is still an occupying force and the insurgency continues. Really, we ought to pull out right now.

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