Purple Nation

By Aziz P. -
This is why George W. Bush - and Howard Dean - were right to believe that the elections should not have been delayed:

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Iraqi women show off their ink stained fingers after voting at a polling station in the Salhiyah district of Baghdad.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)


BTW I'd like to encourage all of you with a dKos account to go and recommend this diary by Zackpunk. Let's show the naysayers that freedom is a Purple virtue.

Comments

Daniel Kirkdorffer said…
While no one can deny the power of being able to vote in Iraq, I cannot shake the oddity of how easy it will be for insurgents to pick out those that did vote by their ink stained fingers.

At the same time I admit that I am amazed how open Iraqis have seemingly been in being branded in such a way, as a mark of pride.

Hopefully we will not hear stories of retaliation against voters.
1:42 AM
Aziz P. said…
there already has been some reports of violence against voters, but without the security presence it surely woudl have been worse. I think that the social celebration of the vote in Iraq is itself a powerful repudiation of the insurgency.
7:53 AM
Doverspa said…
Aziz, thanks for your efforts in convincing liberals to recognize this vote as a positive development. There is a hope for compromise in this country only if we have some fundamental values in common. I believe a commitment to freedom and democracy should be one of those values and your response to this election keeps my hope alive.
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