Article: "We will vote for you..so that you become more corrupt"

"(Hawlati) Translated by Dr Kamal Mirawdeli -In any case, whether we would vote or not, you are accustomed to your regular practice of filling the polling boxes and cross the voting forms with a Yes vote of which we are not aware. You will do this until the percentage of Yes votes reaches the level talked about in the time of the late dictatorship.
By Nabaz Goran, Hawlati, 8 December 2005--

Of course neither is democracy such a wretched thing as that you practise, nor is voting such a meaningless thing that eventually the comic figure of 100 per cent is achieved. I know that you never want to become a home which is capable of hosting democracy because you started your first election trial in a paralysed way and turned election fraud into a culture to train in it yourselves and the generation after you.

Is the person who refuses to vote a traitor? Or is he or she the son or daughter of one of the old jashes [Kurds who betray their nation and serve foreign masters] of the years of the [Saddam] regime as you propagate via your TV channels? If you had known even an iota of the meaning of democracy you would not have confused the word treason with the process of elections because those who have been traitors are not us but your Excellencies. And those who today embrace the jashes are not us but the warm hospitality halls of the parties. Believe us: neither were our fathers jashes, nor were we in love with treason ourselves. Something which has made us fed up and decline to vote is that all the jashes and file-owners [those who have files of treason and spying for Ba'ath party discovered in Iraq’s intelligence offices after the fall of Saddam] are in your arms but you wish to wipe your own fatty hands off our heads."
The Kurdistani