January 24, 2005
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday !!!
The big game this Sunday isn't the Super Bowl, it's the Iraqi elections...
This Sunday is a day of enormous import in the nation of Iraq. While Iraqi terrorists are looking forward to Sunday and preparing for big attacks, the Iraqi people may show the world that we have underestimated their desire for a free election.
Sure, voting is going to be tough in parts of the country - hasn't stopped people before. In Central America, in El Salvador, bombs routinely went off at polling places - and the people returned. In Ukraine, the people demanded to vote twice when their first vote was corrupted. In Afghanistan, women prepared their bodies for death with ritual adornment and ceremony before going to the ballot box, where suprisingly little violence occurred.
So why not Iraq? The terrorists are betting they can disrupt the election and spoil the outcome.
But this Sunday, I'm taking the Iraqi people, minus the points...
Posted by MEC2 at January 24, 2005 08:04 PM