Iraqi elections...let the spin begin

And begin it has.
From The All Spin Zone:

One of Allawi's stooges claims "72% of voters voted", with absolutely no facts to back it up, but the SCLM immediately seizes on this as gospel, and obediently reports the figure. Dozens of people are killed in dozens of polling place incidents, but it's spun as eggs and omlettes.

It would appear that Alawi and crew have learned how to pick numbers out of the air just like the Bushites. It will be determined that the numbers are bogus but...

By the time the complete story slips out, this sham election will be old, old news and any corrections will run on page A-27 of New Pravda.

James Wolcott caught a little reality slip up on FOX yesterday:

Yesterday on one of the Fox financial shows, James Rogers, author of Investment Biker, commodities guru, and neighbor-down-the-block (an utterly irrelevant detail I thought I'd toss in to make this blog sound more "personal"), was asked by host Neil Cavuto whether the elections in Iraq would be successful. Rogers said, "They'll be successful because the media will say they're successful," adding impishly, "Fox News probably already has the results."

Boy, how did they let that get on the air?
I see now they have realized that the 72% is a little much for even the delusional crowd to accept so even though the TURNOUT [IS] ABOVE EXPECTATIONS:

They originally put it at 72 percent but later backtracked, saying possibly eight million had voted, or just over 60 percent of registered voters. But they acknowledged the figures were guesswork.

"Guesswork" is another way of saying "picking numbers that sound good out of your ass".
Like Afghanistan before it the election in Iraq will not make any difference. Remember how things were going to get better after Saddam was captured and after Fulljah was leveled. Hang on to your hats, the spin is just beginning.