Big, Big Troubles With the Iraqi Elections

Boy, am I glad I'm not in Iraq. All these bombings and stuff, and blowing up polling places and election officials. And candidates being scared to even say they are candidates and not being able to even talk about what they are for or against.

And then there's the fiasco with the Omar Party, the Omar Iraqi Democratic Party, and the Omar Promise Party that BBC reports on as being like the Monty Python skit about the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front.

And then al-Zarqawi declares all out war on democracy in Iraq and elections.
It's funny that Bush keeps jibber-jabbering about how the best security is going to be there and silly things like that. The five step plan that he came up with in September is failing miserably. He should have gone all the way to nine steps because isn't the ninth step where you apologize for being such a jerk? I wonder how much money is going to be spent on security in Iraq on election day compared to how much money was spent on security in Washington on Inauguration Day. Maybe he should just ask the taxpayers of D.C. to pay for the added security in Iraq since they were nice enough to pay for security for the Inauguration.

The one lonely realist still in the Administration for a teeny tiny bit longer says this about how the election process is affecting Iraq:

"The insurgency is not going to go away as a result of this election," the outgoing US secretary of state, Colin Powell, said this week. "In fact, perhaps the insurgents might become emboldened."

And the little graphic that Yahoo! has on it's website to group together articles about the Iraqi election is this:



Shouldn't it say "Iraq Just Before All Out Civil War" and show some blowed up dead people or something.