For Iraqis, a Heyday instead of an Uday.
The anti-war crowd has never looked as foolish as it did yesterday. News images showed pictures of "Protesters" demonstrating against the Iraqi elections, denouncing them as "Illegal". One wonders if they have considered that the freedom which allows them to stage their views at home is precisely what drives the events in today's Iraq, thanks to the tenacity of George Bush and the coalition forces.Furthermore, if this election is "Illegal", what is their opinion of the last "Election" that took place under Saddam Hussein's rule? You know the one: the results were either 99% or 100% for Hussein, with a plus-one-percentage point margin of error. For the anti-war crowd, these results are somehow not only more genuine than what took place in Iraq yesterday, they're also more desirable. That supposedly mature adults could hold this opinion is nothing short of frightening.
We heard much the same thing about Afghanistan: The U.S. should not have invaded, the Taliban should not have been overthrown, elections were impractical and undesirable, and finally, that the results of said election were somehow illegitimate. With stability and a sense of purpose now well-established in that once-lost country, the Afghanistan critics have suddenly fallen silent on the subject, and turned their invective towards the events in Iraq.
What if the nay-sayers were calling the shots? We came very close to a Kerry presidency; would he have had the stomach to allow and encourage the elections to move forward? It's not difficult to imagine a scenario where global criticism results in endless delays, with one half of Kerry's audience demanding an immediate exit of U.S. troops, and another half being only slightly more supportive, but still never allowing for an actual date on which Iraqis could formally decide their own future.
This would have been a disaster for all involved; after all, there's nothing the opposition terrorists would like more than extended chunks of time in which to engage in more bombings, beheadings, and the like - which would further erode the will of the people.
The U.S. and coalition forces that brought us to this moment have paid a very high price - which we are all very clear on - but the resulting fruits of democracy, as in Afghanistan, will do far more for the region than anything the anti-war crowd has ever managed to envision.
posted by ET @ 1:16 PM
1 Comments:
To our critics nothing we do will ever be right, the US could do everything they say that they want and they would say we need to do more.
The elections in Iraq were not only a success, but it should be a wake up call to the American voters that the Iraqi people risked their lives to go to the polls and vote in a higher percentage than US Voters could be bothered to get out in the safety of the US.
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