Nice Catch my Faux Progressive Nemesis

Sometimes Attaturk is too busy plotting world conquest (not our world...for now, I CLAIM DOMINION OVER MERCURY!); doing actual compensated work; and ... of course, being the fidolla ho of the progressive blogosphere to read everything, even in the major papers.

But Holden at First Draft found a juicy little nugget in the NY Times today, regarding the REAL turnout of voters in Iraq...as opposed to what the Bush Administration sold to "up" its approval ratings and create its disconnect of "Chimperial Reality".

Leaders of the Shiite alliance have said they are counting on increasing their vote share to at least 55 percent as more votes come in from eight predominantly Shiite southern provinces, including Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city behind Baghdad. Partial returns for these provinces have totaled only 1.6 million votes, one for every five people, across an area where turnouts as high as 80 percent were reported on election day.

So it looks like 80 percent has turned into 20 percent. That's impressive meta-reality. Almost as impressive as the Beflightsuit Dear Leader's claim of fiscal competence in turning tens of billions of dollars in budget surplus into a projected 2006 FY deficit of $560 billion.

Rapturous!