Let's talk about candidates and elections

It is good to discuss the future in these days which brings the past to the present; in days that seems pretty much like the ugly old days and us being in the dark as always it's really important to discuss the main topic that occupies the minds of most Iraqis; it's good to talk about the candidates to prevent another 4-years' disaster if it's even in our hands!

Within a week Iraqis will elect their candidates for the provisional elections which is a very important election because those candidates will be responsible for most things in the governorate they were elected for. The past few days were really like the dark period, so much explosions that you can hear everywhere, many roads closed suddenly, the continuous symphony of bullets and of course so many deaths and casualties. 2 days ago there were 2 explosions in Adhamiya and one explosive pack that was found before it explodes (that's what I was able to know among so many explosions and waves of bullets) one of the explosions targeted the dean of the Islamic university who happens to be a candidate also and killed 5 innocent people, while yesterday explosions in Zaiona and another in Mansour were reported (that's also what I was able to know because the silence of the media is terrible). It seems like the guys are preparing themselves for the elections and that brings us to the main subject which is the CANDIDATES.

The rules for the elections are really vague, what will be the procedures of choosing who will occupy the chair be? It haven't been published to the people…How did the elections' higher committee check the liability of the candidates? Did they check their financial position and records to verify the source of their wealth? Did they check their education certificates to see if they are telling the truth about it? Did they really check their criminal records? Unfortunately NO, they haven't despite that this is their job; it's not only counting voices that they have to do and observing the elections' centers in which they failed too….

All the parliament members didn't approve to the law of giving financial standings at all!! Guess why? Yesterday an independent candidate called a debate program on a local Iraqi channel and discussed one of the laws which was really strange; if a list failed to achieve the required number of points then all its points will be given to the big list!!! Well, who decides which list is big and which one is small? This is absurd let's say I chose a list for secular candidates and they didn't make it, in what reason should my voice be directed to a fanatic Islamic party? What logic is this? The higher committee MUST protect the people from choosing the criminals and thieves because many people don't know them, in the debate program also a man called from Alshaab district in Baghdad and said that they have three candidates that he knows for sure were in a militia (JAM) and where responsible for the death of hundreds of people and terrifying thousands while they were wearing black and now they are wearing suits (without a tie of course) and running for elections and this is the case in so so many governorates as I understood from people who were calling but the case is severe in Baghdad where the big prize is, there are countless numbers of candidates with blood stained hands or stained brains (the ones who didn't kill by their hands but killed by their orders and sick ideologies that they spread) and I don't want to give examples and names because it will be a very long post but it 

can't be as long as the list of the candidates is! Thousands of people have became candidates, men and women who we never heard of, who have done nothing to Iraq, who haven't participated in any political, humanitarian or social events…wherever you go in Baghdad you would see big posters occupying every inch of every wall or concrete block with a photo (mostly)  of an ugly person with an evil look in his eyes and a catchy slogan, more empty shells which if wanted to be filled it will be filled with the love of money, hatred to others and corruption and the last thing to care about is the good of Iraq and Iraqis….like the Shahristani (oil minister) with his recent techniques to satisfy his masters in Iran when he blocked the support of the black oil to the Iraqi bricks companies which lead to the absence of bricks in the market and that's when the Iranian brick companies saved the situation and started exporting their bricks to Iraq and fill the markets with!!! OH, thank you Iran for saving us, what a disgusting situation.

And for more sad events you should know that some parties mainly the "big parties" are using really sick methods…they send their monkeys (the men who works with them) to the poor neighborhoods which is occupied by simple people and have high population, the monkeys gives people blankets for free but they carry a Koran in the other hand, the monkeys gives the blanket in one hand in condition that the one who takes it must swear by God with his hands on the Koran that he will elect the "big party" (it is a very big sin if a man didn't do what he swear to do with hands on the Koran), what a dirty way to manipulate people and forge the elections…another party buys voices also in poor areas and the price is 50 000 ID which is about 45$, what a cheap price to sell Iraq for! It really makes me sick….this is completely true and from eye witnesses.

Few days ago I was talking with a relative who got to read the detailed list for PM Almaliki and we really laughed a lot, thank you Maliki for that laugh and for the worms you want to give us! In the list there is the name of the candidate, his number in the list and his higher educational level….in the field of the educational level you can see miracles one of the candidates is "doctor to-be"!!! Another is "His father is a doctor"!!! And another candidate is a real doctor (physician) but what kind of physicians he is? He was a member in the team who had a hideout in Palestine St. where they used to kidnap disadvantaged kids mainly suffering from Trisomy Syndrome (mongolism) to take their Kidneys and other organs to sell it, that was at Saddam's times and he is running for elections now! Just imagine for few seconds what will he do when he is in power, just imagine? Have mercy on us god….A man who lives in UK called the debate program also because he was an observer in the last elections and he confirmed that the results were forged in so many ways and he wanted to give names but the presenter said that there should be no names because it's the policy of the program…  such stories seems to have no end, we can talk and never finish about the reality of most candidates but what I wanted to say is that it's more like a primary school theater play than real elections but this doesn't mean I'll not elect…sure I will, if it was to be forged and manipulated then it will be whether I elect or not but at least I'll do my part and choose what I want.

There is one last thing that I've noticed from watching and listening to debate programs on the local channels about the elections that is: most people have learned their lesson the hard way and will never be blind-followers at least that's what the callers have said and the people they know…we will see, it's not too far, just few days from now and we will see….if the results came out with the winning of the "big parties" which I expect then it means one of the following: either the elections were forged or people have sold their souls to the devil or my people didn't learn and if they didn't learn from all of this then they will never learn and if they are never going to learn then there is absolutely no hope in Iraq so god help us.

You might have noticed that this post have the higher number of question marks and exclamation marks among my posts and that's because my head is really filled with them same as the heads of the Iraqis who wants the best for their country, we only have question marks, unfortunately.