Friday, December 16, 2005
Purple Fingers
What an amazing day December 15, 2005 turned out to be! 11 million Iraqi voters showed up at the polls, over 70% of the country's registered voters. In Tikrit, where Saddam is from, the turnout was over 80%! That's incredible.
A mortar shell hit a polling station and when the smoke cleared, all the people simply got back in line to await their turn to vote. In America a simple rainy day will keep voters away from the polls. What kind of reaction would we have if a mortar shell hit one of our polling places? I can guarantee you that the people would not get back in line to vote.
I am proud as hell of the Iraqi citizens. They are a courageous people and they deserve a whole lot of respect from the rest of the world. Despite all the naysayers they held an election and it was taken seriously and it was wonderfully successful.
To listen to the US media one would think the situation in Iraq was indeed a quagmire. John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry and Howard Dean and all the other loudmouth Liberals with their severe negative attitude about the Iraq situation were proven dead wrong. Good! I think that is just desserts for their idiotic ranting about cutting and running from this fledgling coutry that we have vowed to protect and help rise up from the ashes of Saddam's dictatorship. Thank God for sane Democrat voices, like Joe Lieberman. He is in a minority but he gets my respect for reporting on the situation in Iraq as he saw it.
I think the simple act of an Iraqi voter dipping his/her finger into a jar of purple ink to prove they had voted, and cannot vote again, sends a powerful message to the anti-Iraqi crowd. We are teaching these people how to fish and they are gobbling up the lessons and running with their newfound knowledge. It just makes me feel good inside.
Why there are people, like the ones mentioned above, who like to look on the negative side of an issue and ignore any news that contradicts their precious left-wing view of the world is beyond me. Me mother taught me that if you have nothing good to say about someone then don't say anything at all. Politicians who preach America's defeat do not get any of my respect. They receive only my scorn.
I know that this war is really no different than any other wartime situation as far as politics go. In every conflict, there are always people who strongly believe that America is wrong in its actions. They want to avoid war at ALL costs. The avoidance of war is a noble idea but it is not always a practical idea. Sometimes shit happens and war is an inevitable result. I am not advocating war at any cost but certainly there are just reasons for going to war.
Whether you think Iraq was a just or unjust war really doesn't matter anymore. Just look at what is happening in that country as a result. I heard an Iraqi citizen say on voting day as he held up his purple finger, "All of you people out there who think George Bush and America was wrong to go into Iraq, you can just go to hell!" Hooray for Iraqi insight.
Perhaps we should consider using purple ink in this country to show you have voted. On second thought, that would only spur a bunch of lawsuits from idiots who think their rights are being abused by staining a part of our bodies.
We should look proudly at the Iraqi people and congratulate them on a fine showing. They know how to make an election work. I wish them the very best in their government.
My nickel.
OH
A mortar shell hit a polling station and when the smoke cleared, all the people simply got back in line to await their turn to vote. In America a simple rainy day will keep voters away from the polls. What kind of reaction would we have if a mortar shell hit one of our polling places? I can guarantee you that the people would not get back in line to vote.
I am proud as hell of the Iraqi citizens. They are a courageous people and they deserve a whole lot of respect from the rest of the world. Despite all the naysayers they held an election and it was taken seriously and it was wonderfully successful.
To listen to the US media one would think the situation in Iraq was indeed a quagmire. John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry and Howard Dean and all the other loudmouth Liberals with their severe negative attitude about the Iraq situation were proven dead wrong. Good! I think that is just desserts for their idiotic ranting about cutting and running from this fledgling coutry that we have vowed to protect and help rise up from the ashes of Saddam's dictatorship. Thank God for sane Democrat voices, like Joe Lieberman. He is in a minority but he gets my respect for reporting on the situation in Iraq as he saw it.
I think the simple act of an Iraqi voter dipping his/her finger into a jar of purple ink to prove they had voted, and cannot vote again, sends a powerful message to the anti-Iraqi crowd. We are teaching these people how to fish and they are gobbling up the lessons and running with their newfound knowledge. It just makes me feel good inside.
Why there are people, like the ones mentioned above, who like to look on the negative side of an issue and ignore any news that contradicts their precious left-wing view of the world is beyond me. Me mother taught me that if you have nothing good to say about someone then don't say anything at all. Politicians who preach America's defeat do not get any of my respect. They receive only my scorn.
I know that this war is really no different than any other wartime situation as far as politics go. In every conflict, there are always people who strongly believe that America is wrong in its actions. They want to avoid war at ALL costs. The avoidance of war is a noble idea but it is not always a practical idea. Sometimes shit happens and war is an inevitable result. I am not advocating war at any cost but certainly there are just reasons for going to war.
Whether you think Iraq was a just or unjust war really doesn't matter anymore. Just look at what is happening in that country as a result. I heard an Iraqi citizen say on voting day as he held up his purple finger, "All of you people out there who think George Bush and America was wrong to go into Iraq, you can just go to hell!" Hooray for Iraqi insight.
Perhaps we should consider using purple ink in this country to show you have voted. On second thought, that would only spur a bunch of lawsuits from idiots who think their rights are being abused by staining a part of our bodies.
We should look proudly at the Iraqi people and congratulate them on a fine showing. They know how to make an election work. I wish them the very best in their government.
My nickel.
OH
# posted by OH @ 9:52 AM 
