Here's a few notes from the article and other sources: Voter turn out in Iraq (63%) was up compared to last January's elections (58%). By way of comparison, our huge turnout for Bush-Kerry in 2004 was less than 60% and that was up a lot from 54% of eligible voters in 2000 for Bush-Gore. And no one is threatening to blow us up while we wait in line!
It's thrilling to see Iraqis wave their purple, ink-stained fingers with pride. My question is why don't we do that in this country to prevent fraud? Voter fraud would be seriously reduced, I'd think, and I'd like it better than those little "I voted" stickers.
Attacks on voting places in January numbered 347. This weekend there were only 13. Way to go!
Harold C. Hutchison says,
"The American strategy of bringing democracy to Iraq is succeeding. So are the tactics that are being used to implement it. While the results are unknown, just the fact that the elections were held and were mostly violence-free is a victory in and of itself. The fact remains that the United States is achieving its objectives, while al Qaeda is not – al Qaeda is even failing to prevent the American objectives from being met. By any objective standard, al Qaeda is losing the war on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. The only places they seem to be winning are in a number of newsrooms in the United States…"
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