Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

In 2002, a presidential election was held in Iraq. Saddam Hussein won it by a margin of 11,445,638 to zero.

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Another election has now been held in Iraq, this time involving 19 million voters, 50,000 polling stations, 6,200 candidates, 325 parliamentary seats and 86 parties. In the run-up to the vote, the general view among Iraqis and foreign observers alike was that the outcome was "too close to call." Linger over the words: "Too close to call" has never before been part of the Arab political lexicon.

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not if obama and his CHICAGO ASSOCIATES have their way...

just check out two obama supporters on the back page...

I think that Stephens' point was adroitly summed up in this quote attributed to Michael Kelly:

Tyranny truly is a horror: an immense, endlessly bloody, endlessly painful, endlessly varied, endless crime against not humanity in the abstract but a lot of humans in the flesh. It is, as Orwell wrote, a jackboot forever stomping on a human face.

I understand why some dislike the idea, and fear the ramifications of, America as a liberator. But I do not understand why they do not see that anything is better than life with your face under the boot. And that any rescue of a people under the boot (be they Afghan, Kuwaiti or Iraqi) is something to be desired. Even if the rescue is less than perfectly realized. Even if the rescuer is a great, overmuscled, bossy, selfish oaf. Or would you, for yourself, choose the boot?

Partisanship aside, I think everyone needs to consider and understand the sacrifice that those people who were killed at the polls made on Sunday and ask themselves if they would be willing to risk their life to vote in a national election here in the US?

They obviously took that risk so that they would never again be under the boot.

*crickets*

Interesting that not one of the usual suspects on the DR Left even deigned to post on this subject.

RofC says, "Interesting that not one of the usual suspects on the DR Left even deigned to post on this subject."

I suppose that you might be justified in having faith that some iota of truth can enter into the consciousness of a progressive Democrat; after all, it is your right to dream of that utopian ideal and however much it progressively moves two steps into the future to your mere one of belief.

How could any of them even admit to any democracy being done in Bush's war crime of deposing Saddam Hussein, and ending the daily rape and murders done by his sons?

Never happen ... only Obama and Biden can claim credit for democracy in Iraq, as they rush to leave it unstable and prey to terrorist forces once again ...

That will be Bush's fault, that Obama *HAD* to pull out before any real conception of democracy took place ... another left-handed, onanistic-special ...

Your post is pearls before swine, and that's a fact ...

#5 | Posted by tadowe

According to Joe Biden, Iraq is one of the great accomplishments of the Obama administration.

Can you believe that shit?

#6

Has anyone with a brain really taken Joe "Plage" Biden seriously in the last 20 years, Jeff? C'mon.

Just watch America embrace democracy come November. It'll be a hoot. The only thing nObama will have left of power is his veto stamp.

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