Oh, By The Way, They’re Voting In Iraq Again
No thanks to Obama or the Democrats:
BAGHDAD — Thousands of soldiers, police officers, hospital patients and prisoners cast ballots on Wednesday as part of early voting in Iraq’s provincial elections.
At least one act of violence accompanied the voting. Two police officers guarding a polling center south of Kirkuk were killed by gunmen who fired at them from a passing car, according to an official from the Ministry of Interior who spoke on condition of anonymity. The gunmen escaped, the official said.
Overall, however, the voting appeared to go smoothly, Iraqi election officials said.
About 615,000 people, most of them employed by Iraq’s security forces, were eligible to vote Wednesday, three days before Saturday’s election. Government officials said the early balloting would help ensure that security forces would be on duty to protect polling stations on Saturday, when about 14 million more Iraqis are eligible to vote.
“The arrangements we are seeing today are a slap in the face to those who are betting that Iraqis will not go to the ballot box because they are despairing,” Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said in a speech on Wednesday.
We won in Iraq - thanks to the troops, their military leaders, General David Petraeus and President Bush - but the people who won the war aren’t ever going to get their due, because it’s politically inconvenient for the Democrats.
Meanwhile, Iraqis will go on enjoying their representative government and not being raped and tortured and murdered by Saddam and his cruel thugs.
