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Sunday, January 30, 2005
IRAQI ELECTION DAY  Well, I'm snowed in up here in Northwest DC — the white stuff has been coming down in showers since midday yesterday. Meanwhile, it's a big day in Iraq. If even the reliably pessimistic Washington Post and New York Times say the Iraqi election was a success, then it must be so. It sounds as if participation has bested all but Andrew Sullivan's most wildly optimistic and shifting expectations (scroll to "A Rock in Troubled Times"), while the death toll is far below his lowest standards. There's still a lot of hard work to be done, but today provides good reason to be hopeful.
On a related note, I'm extremely pleased to report that E-Rocky-Confidential is being updated once again. The blog is written from Baghdad Airport by a very good friend who has been serving there for over a year now. I had assumed his superiors frowned upon his blogging — though he takes utmost care to respect mission secrecy — but it turns out he was just having computer troubles. Here's hoping he keeps posting regularly, and that he gets rotated out soon. He's earned it. One more thing: I get regular e-mails from an Iraqi-American named Haider Ajina, who still has family there. Haider has been optimistic about the future of his native country, more so than most; you can imagine how he must be feeling today. Power Line usually posts his comments, but because they haven't done so today (at least not yet), I'll post here what he sent early this morning, EST. It's verbatim, so excuse the minor errors: I just called my father in Baghdad to see if he and the rest of my Iraqi family over there have voted yet. He said we were all just heading out the door, but we ill wait and talk to you (chuckling). I heard a strength and joy in his voice and could hear the rest of my relatives in the back ground. It sounded like a family reunion. My 84 year old Iraqi Grandmother will be voting for the first time in her life. My father (a naturalized U.S. Citizen) said we are all getting ready to go vote in a school near by. This school was just being built when I left Iraq in the late 70's. I know where it is and I can picture my father, uncles aunties and cousins along with the rest of the family walking through my old neighborhood to that school and vote. My father said "For the first time in my life I voted in the U.S. and now I can vote in Iraq. We want our voices to count, we want to decide our future and we want the world to know we have a voice in our future and in our government, this will give the Iraqi government true legitimacy, just like in America". |
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