Saturday, October 15, 2005

Voting Day in Iraq, and the Prelude Was

a bit messy.

Iraq's Sunni Arab minority made a violent reentry into politics Friday, bombing offices of a political party that urged support for a new U.S.-backed constitution while posting insurgents and tribal fighters at some polling places to ensure that Sunni voters could vote safely Saturday against the proposed charter.


With the Sunni vote split, the constitution will be approved, but you still have to wonder if it will make much difference. It is clear that no path to peace exist, we are just wandering around confused, praying that something, anything will work.


One piece of yesterday's news that further adds to the confusion is the validity of the letter that we intercepted and proudly announced as proof of progress.

There do appear to be a couple of valid questions.

Since this is not an area where I have any real depth of understanding, I will leave it tot he experts to fight among themselves. So we are left deeper in confusion, and the fighting continues, and the bleeding continues, and the spending continues, and there is no end in sight.

1 comment:


  1. Guess what liberal
    said this: I was in a
    tiny village in Tepoztlan
    in Mexico on the 17th
    of September, 1985,
    and I had a vision-like
    experience climbing
    a mountain there on
    the top of which is
    a temple to the
    Mesoamerican
    Christ figure,
    Quetzalcoatl.
    And one of these
    little UFOs came
    over that mountain,
    and I was signaled
    from a group of persons
    to come, and I was
    beamed up into that
    small vehicle and carried
    to a larger vehicle where
    I heard the voice of my
    leader and teacher, the
    Honorable Elijah
    Mohammed saying
    these words to me...
    (Minister Farrakhan)


    The left just seems to get
    more excited about anything
    when death is on the table.
    I don't know what it is, whether
    it's disaster death or war death
    or society deciding we're going
    to off some of our fellow citizens,
    they get ginned up about it, really
    get excited about the death aspect.
    But, but, you start talking about life
    and somehow they just don't have
    as much interest in that, as though
    it is enlightened to understand that
    it's some people's duty to die and
    get out of the way, and that not
    everybody has a right to life. It
    depends on what somebody
    else wants. So I am continually
    amazed at the left.

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