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« A Must-Read for Rathergate Junkies | Main | Leftist Rabidity for Hire » January 31, 2005
More Optimism
Posted by Bill WaPo: Lines that began small at polling stations grew during the 10 hours of voting, sometimes dramatically. After casting ballots, many Iraqis triumphantly pointed their index fingers, stained with the purple ink that indicated they had voted, and hardly flinched at gunfire and explosions that interrupted the day. At one station, a woman showered election workers with handfuls of candy. At another, a veiled, elderly woman kept repeating, "God's blessings on you" to election workers. Across town, three Iraqi soldiers carried an elderly man in a wheelchair two blocks to a voting booth. Read the whole thing. The oddly positive reporting in such a comprehensive round-up makes me think that things really went better than we possibly could have imagined. No, one vote doesn't make a Democracy; but the explicit rejection of terrorism and optimism of the Iraqi people marks a vital precondition for success. These factors alone bear celebration. Posted by Bill at January 31, 2005 11:12 AM | TrackBack (0) CommentsI think the coolest thing is that the phrase "We did it ourselves" is commonplace. This is the real legitimacy of the elections- their elections. The Iraqi people have every right to be proud! Posted by: hinzman They did it themselves? Are you kidding me, hinzman? Iraqis voted under occupation from a secret list of US-approved candidates and ONLY in those provinces under US control! I am a huge fan of free elections, and I have fond memories of my childhood when we had them here in America. But despite the self-important crowings of the blogosphere and the conservative-controlled media, what happened in Iraq was not a free or legitimate election. It was a photo op designed to put a thin veneer of legality on the US for-profit war. Posted by: Don Myers Don - You are a cliched dope. tell me - the candidates specifically put forth by Sistani are actually Bush puppets? Give up Don. Your ideology driven by hatred can't win. Posted by: Bill from INDC Your ideology driven by hatred can't win Pot kettle black, dude... Posted by: Don Myers I don't really hate many people, except perhaps those that put their own political inclinations above humanism. Some reasonable people opposed the war for reasonable calculations. You are not one of them ... ... because your sense of self-worth is more important to you than cheering on anything positive that's contrary to your initial conclusions. We all hold dogma dear to some degree or another, tend to dimiss and embrace the things that suit us - but the will of the Iraqi people is staring you in the face and you still can't let go of your hatred of Bush, and perhaps the US. As a result, you're marginalizing yourself into a punchline. Congrats. I actually find you amusing, Don. You are a bunny in the dustbin of history. Posted by: Bill from INDC Bill: Your poorly-written attempts at character assassination are a typical response to anyone who challanges the White House mythology of a free Iraq. I think you're still waiting for the rose-petals and the "they will greet us as liberators" parade that the Bush regime promised you. Clearly, you'll will accept any small scrap of progress as proof that Dubya's fantasy is finally, at long last, coming to life. You're always crying that the media is "biased," dude...but you see a few staged photos of ink-stained fingers (and they WERE staged phots at a handful of sites, you realize that, right?) and you buy the whole story...hook, line, and sinker. Posted by: Don Myers |
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