Comments on: Iraq rocks the vote http://www.lewismoten.com/2005/01/iraq-rocks-the-vote.html This is just a blog (web log) about me - Lewis Moten. Read along as I talk about daily happenings, movies, opinions, programming, and more. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:15:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Beth http://www.lewismoten.com/2005/01/iraq-rocks-the-vote.html#comment-486 Beth Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.lewismoten.com/2005/01/iraq-rocks-the-vote.html#comment-486 Did you send your picture to the <a href="http://www.gopbloggers.org/bluefingers.html>gallery</a>? Did you send your picture to the The news reports of the festivities, you’d almost have to call them that based upon most of the videos I’ve seen, have made this conservative, mostly Bush-backer very pleased and incredibly proud of the Iraqis who gave the “finger” to Zarqawi and the ba’athist thugs.

I was sorry to hear of the 35 deaths and however many injuries, but I really expected more, much more, based upon the pre-vote threats so I’m also proud of the job that our forces, along with the other-national and Iraqi forces did in allowing such a trouble free vote for the Iraqi people.

I hope that this will be the precursor to many good things: that Iraqi’s will no longer put up with the trouble-makers but will cooperate more in ridding their towns of murderous thugs; that nations who have heretofore done little or nothing for the Iraqi effort will, recognizing a legitimate government in Iraq, agree to participate more in at least training of Iraqi military and police forces (I don’t seriously suppose they will pony up forces of thier own in Iraq but I can dream and pray); that a new government will be seen as legitimate by more Iraqis diminishing the draw that Zarqawi might have for making recruits.

Pipe-dreams? Perhaps, but they are mine.

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