…which makes it 99% fuller than the vacuous dome making up Juan Cole’s skull (link thanks to LC Jason):

Looks like Hollowhead Juan and his Lefty Loonitarians once again got bitch-slapped by reality, but fear not, there’s still a chance that everything will turn out bad:

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Sunni Arabs Reject Constitution

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, barely recovering from yet another prediction of doom down the drain, “professor” (of basket weaving, presumably) Juan Cole is ready with another one, this time stated as an assertion even before the results are in! Good job, Miss Cleo. We can’t help but wonder what you’ll do for your next trick.

Anbar province to the west of Baghdad has about 1.2 million residents, almost all of them Sunni Arabs. It had the lightest turnout in the referendum Saturday on the new constitution, but what turnout there was appears to have been solidly negative. Of 209 polling stations in the province, the home of anti-American cities such as Fallujah and Ramadi, 60 to 70 stations did not open– largely for security reasons.

And in anti-American cities such as Los Angeles, Berkeley and Boston, polls didn’t open at all!

That is, about a third of the population was deprived of the opportunity to vote there.

Well, you can always send in Gore’s crack legal team from 2000 in to fix it, can’t you?

Others, as in most of Ramadi, rejected the whole process as illegitimate insofar as it occurred under foreign military occupation. (There was also violence at Ramadi).

(If you listen carefully, you can hear Juan muttering “thank you, Jesus” under his breath).

It probably does not matter, though, since the vote is by province. Anbar said “no” to the constitution.

Then there is Salahuddin Province, just north of Baghdad, with about one million inhabitants. Its major cities include Tikrit and Samarra. AP thought late Saturday evening that Sunni Arabs there might well muster a 2/3s majority against the constitution.

And here we are on Sunday, pre-eminent psychic Juan Cole stating categorically that they were right.

The other possible province in which Sunni Arabs had some hope of defeating the constitution by 2/3s is Ninevah, the home of Mosul city. Ninevah has some 2 million inhabitants. Ninevah has a substantial Sunni Turkmen minority, principally at Tal Afar, and they are militantly against the constitution, still smarting under the [last part of the sentence missing - M.]

Under what, O Oracle of the Obtuse? The world may never know.

Ninevah is 2.5 million, including the city of Mosul, which has over a million residents. The majority is Sunni Arab and it could be province number 3 to reject the constitution. If that happened, the constitution would fail.

“Would?”

We thought that your headline indicated that it already had? Could you at least stay consistently wrong within the same article, or is that too much to ask of you as well?

It seems clear that most Iraqi Sunnis paid no attention to the Iraqi Islamic Party of Muhsin Abdul Hamid, which had called for a “yes” vote after it helped wring last minute concessions from the Shiites and Kurds. A very important concession was that former members of the Baath Party would be allowed to reenter Iraqi society.

It seems unlikely that the constitution will be rejected, though it is now more of a question mark than it might have been.

Obviously it is.

With this, we take our leave of yet another of Cluefucked Cole’s “informed comments” and leave him to cry himself to sleep while he fondles his woefully inadequate wedding tackle, dreaming of happier days when Father Saddam and his demonic offspring, Crispy and Crispier, were still free to operate their rape rooms and people shredders.

Is there a possibility that the new Iraqi Constitution might be rejected? Sure, but then they’ll just have to come up with one that won’t, won’t they? At least they now have a say in the process, unlike what was the case when the Psychopathic Idol of Juan Cole’s Loony Left was in power.

Not being a True Believer in Totalitarianism we’d consider that a Good Thing™, but we can’t hardly claim that we’re surprised that Stalin’s Sock Puppets on the left don’t.

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