While Scrappleface reports things as they truly are:
Iraqi Voting Disrupts News Reports of Bombings
(2005-01-30) -- News reports of terrorist bombings in Iraq were marred Sunday by shocking graphic images of Iraqi "insurgents" voting by the millions in their first free democratic election.
Despite reporters' hopes that a well-orchestrated barrage of mortar attacks and suicide bombings would put down the so-called 'freedom insurgency', hastily-formed battalions of rebels swarmed polling places to cast their ballots -- shattering the status quo and striking fear into the hearts of the leaders of the existing terror regime.
Hopes for a return to the stability of tyranny waned as rank upon rank of Iraqi men and women filed out of precinct stations, each armed with the distinctive mark of the new freedom guerrillas -- an ink-stained index finger, which one former Ba'athist called "the evidence of their betrayal of 50 years of Iraqi tradition."
Journalists struggled to put a positive spin on the day's events, but the video images of tyranny's traitors choosing a future of freedom overwhelmed the official story of bloodshed and mayhem.
UPDATE: From around the 'sphere.
Smash:
WE WHO LIVE in the bright light of Liberty have an obligation, to stand up for those who are struggling to escape from the shadow of Tyranny.
We ignore this obligation at our own peril.
Vanderleun:
The Continuing American Revolution in an Age of Globalization. Over 200 Years Old. Still Freeing Slaves.
RightThinkingGirl:
Continuing on his sourpuss theme, John Kerry said on NBC's "Meet The Press", "It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country can't vote and doesn't vote."
Early reports indicate that the Iraqi turnout is about that of the American turnout was on November 2. Somebody should tell that to John Kerry.
The reason for all this negativity on what is one of the greatest days of Iraqi history is one of the great mysteries of the Democratic party. They have set themselves up so that good news for the USA is bad news for them, and bad news for the USA is good news for them. The success of the vision of George W. Bush for a free, democratic Iraq is a crushing defeat to their anti-war stance. Free Iraqis would invalidate almost every argument they've given for not going to war in the first place. Yet if Democrats had their way, Saddam would still be in power today. Instead of exercising their democratic rights, it would be business as usual in Iraq: mass graves, torture, and terror.
This is not just a great day for Iraq. It's a great day for America - and for George W. Bush.
Let's Try Freedom:
I think we may just be winning.
Uptown Girl:
From tears to laughter the joy of the Iraqi people cannot be denied as they make history by casting their votes in their first free election.
Stones Cry Out:
It's a glorious morning. The news from Iraq is better than I think anyone, even the Bush administration, expected. I'm about to leave for Sunday service, but Kerry is on Meet the Press. Both Russert and Senator Kerry still don't get it... Iraqis get it... Their neighbors are getting it... When will the left get it?
Think Sink:
Amen, brothers, amen.
God Bless Iraq!!!
Death to tyranny, long live freedom!!!
Day by Day - Chris Muir:
Cranky NeoCon:
No doubt those people praying for a Tet offensive or writing the whole thing off as an American Imperial misadventure will be unswayed. But today, something in the neighborhood of 65% of the 14 million eligible voters just told the world that they want democracy.
Today, I am going to be a misty-eyed optimist. Tomorrow, I'll probably read that over seven million Iraqis are actually CIA operatives.
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