On the Iraqi elections
The Iraqi elections were far more succesful than anyone could have predicted (including myself). While there were a lot of terror attacks, the voting went as smoothly as could have been hoped for and received orderly and enthusiastic participation.
The big unheralded story of the past two years in Iraq has been the optimism and determination of the Iraqi people. The Left wing in this country and around the world has used its racist stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims to criticize the Bush administration, saying that democracy won't work in the Arab world because of who these people are. The President has repeatedly claimed that freedom is written in the heart of every person, and that democracy, while not a perfect form of government, is the finest one humans can produce because it is the system that makes government accountable to its people.
If there are any governments out there that need to be accountable to their peoples, they are the ones in the Arab world.
Saddam Hussein killed one million innocent Iraqis. He created child prisons and used torture as government policy. His goal was to rule the Middle East through weapons of mass destruction, and he was artfully using his own cease-fire agreement with the UN over WMDs to his advantage. He knew, as did George Bush, that the UN would eventually leave or lose its vision and then he'd be back in business. The president, facing the aftermath of 9/11, a world where terror exists because of this same radical terror impulse of Hussein, saw that these useless UN sanctions would not hold up. In the last two years the president has sought to remedy the problems that have created the terror regimes in the Middle East. While he has not been perfect, he has turned out so far to be right-- as the elections just proved.
There are two groups of people we need to thank here-- the coalition soldiers whose sacrifice opened the doors to freedom and the Iraqis who have bravely taken the next step and are making that gift theirs.
And we should probably offer the Bush administration a big fat apology.
The most startling image of the Iraqi elections may have been the large amounts of women voters.
The big unheralded story of the past two years in Iraq has been the optimism and determination of the Iraqi people. The Left wing in this country and around the world has used its racist stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims to criticize the Bush administration, saying that democracy won't work in the Arab world because of who these people are. The President has repeatedly claimed that freedom is written in the heart of every person, and that democracy, while not a perfect form of government, is the finest one humans can produce because it is the system that makes government accountable to its people.
If there are any governments out there that need to be accountable to their peoples, they are the ones in the Arab world.
Saddam Hussein killed one million innocent Iraqis. He created child prisons and used torture as government policy. His goal was to rule the Middle East through weapons of mass destruction, and he was artfully using his own cease-fire agreement with the UN over WMDs to his advantage. He knew, as did George Bush, that the UN would eventually leave or lose its vision and then he'd be back in business. The president, facing the aftermath of 9/11, a world where terror exists because of this same radical terror impulse of Hussein, saw that these useless UN sanctions would not hold up. In the last two years the president has sought to remedy the problems that have created the terror regimes in the Middle East. While he has not been perfect, he has turned out so far to be right-- as the elections just proved.
There are two groups of people we need to thank here-- the coalition soldiers whose sacrifice opened the doors to freedom and the Iraqis who have bravely taken the next step and are making that gift theirs.
And we should probably offer the Bush administration a big fat apology.
The most startling image of the Iraqi elections may have been the large amounts of women voters.
posted by James at 1/31/2005 07:43:00 AM
1 Comments:
gasbags and shills for the current evil doers in the whitehouse.
you two freeks believe everything you're told by the evil doers?
why was the referendum total only 66%, focus group tell you that would be a believable number?
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