January 30, 2005
Iraqis vote with considerable success…
…but look at CNN.
Yes, there was violence. Yes, there were terrorist attacks. But an estimated 70+% of the populace went out and voted. The number and severity of the terror attacks on polling places is much lower than expected.
I was worried about how this day would take shape. Thankfully, a quick look at the news this morning showed that everything was much better than expected. Not bad, for a quagmire.
In other news, it looks like my flight to Atlanta is cancelled due to the ice storms there… Not good.
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I am with you . . I thought that the election was going to much rougher than it has. The media tries to depict the Iraqi Reconstruction in the worst possible light possible and today it was a great day in their history but all the media has to talk about is the insurgent attacks. Not the fact that the Iraqi citizenry had a “projected” higer turnout the we, the USA, did last November.
I agree with you that this is a horrible quagmire!
“Not the fact that the Iraqi citizenry had a “projected” higer turnout the we, the USA, did last November.”
Yeah, and nobody threatened to behead me for voting. Nobody was lobbing mortars at my polling place.