The Silent Majority. A roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq.

WSJ Opinion Journal ^ | Dec. 20, 2004 | ARTHUR CHRENKOFF

[FairOpinion]

The newest member of the international democratic leaders club, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, recently had some words of encouragement and advice for the Iraqi people on their hard road to a better future: "They must go to polls. They must take this opportunity, elect their people to parliament, and have a government of their own, and have peace. . . . The major lesson in Afghanistan was that the Afghan people wanted change, from the tyranny of terrorism. The Iraqi people also will gain nothing if they allow these people to come from outside and destroy their lives."

We will know soon enough to what extent the Iraqis as a whole have listened to this advice, but as of six weeks before the vote, the indications are that the "silent majority" is keen for the election to mark a clean break from the past and a beginning of a new Iraq.

Iraqis seem to agree. The latest poll of 5,000 people in and around Baghdad suggests that an overwhelming majority are prepared to make a clean break with the past and pursue democracy--now.

[FairOpinion]

Iraqis hopeful about their future.

But this is a well kept secret by the MSM.

Long article, but it has a lot of good specifics on the positive development. It's worth at least scanning the original, at the link above.

It's information we never read in the MSM.

[IGBT]

The liberal seditionists in the Old News MSM are pursuing a "bad news agenda" in an effort to discredit our efforts in Iraq..which greatly encourages the terrorists in Iraq and else where. No doubt many of the American casualties in Iraq are the result of MSM pro terrorist reporting. Peter Jennings and Dan Rather are purveyors of anti-Americanism and have American GI blood on their hands.

[tangerine]

Good article. Lot of information. Bump.