Democrats react to the stunningly positive Iraqi election. But no matter how much cold water they try to throw on it, the Iraqi election - the mere fact that it happened and the fact that millions of Iraqis risked terror attacks to vote - is a credit to...

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The courage of the Iraqi people? Iraqi security forces? American GI Joes who are risking and giving their lives to salvage something positive from the ruins created by American war-mongering? The forty killed and hundreds injured while trying to participate? The demands of Ayatolla Al-Sistani? The strategy of keeping polling locations and candidate names secret until the very last minute, regardless of how badly it may compromise the legitimacy of the election?

The answer appears in the extended entry...

President George W. Bush.

I am thankful, along with most Iraqis and the rest of the world, that today's election proceeded with relative calm and relative high turn-out. Indeed, that is a testament to the courage and patriotism of the Iraqi people. I expect it is also a testament to the desparation of many in a war-torn country who truly need to feel they have the ability to do something to take back control of their own lives. Let us hope that soon that nation will rise from its ashes and come into a new life. And no thanks to Preseident George W. Bush who invaded in order to "disarm" Saddam Hussein, without ever giving him the chance to peacably disarm, and who never had a plan, and probably never even had a desire for bringing freedom to that nation.

P.S. - some good advice from the party of Lee Atwater, John McCain's black bastard baby, the Swift Boat Liars, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. And I mean that. It's more important that we not become that which we hate, than that we win elections. Yeah, meanness, negativity, and propaganda win elections, but on the other hand, every new generation has an opportunity to open its eyes, to choose, and thus deserve, something better.