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The Iraqi people held another historic election today. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki hailed the largely peaceful provincial vote. It was another great success for the young democracy.

DOVER, N.H. - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told New Hampshire voters Saturday that ending the war in Iraq is more important than whether she repudiates her 2002 vote authorizing President Bush to use military force there. The New York senator and party front-runner repeatedly has faced calls for her to say her vote was a mistake. Democrats pressed her on it last weekend in New Hampshire and again on Saturday at a town hall meeting in the early voting state. One of her rivals, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, has disavowed his vote. Another, Sen. Barack Obama...

Less than two days before nationwide elections, the Iraqi border police seized a truck that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots. The Democratic National Committee issued a statement condemning the seizure. “This is the same type of attempt to suppress the vote that we saw in Ohio in 2004,” said the statement. “Obviously, Republicans will stop at nothing when it comes to winning elections.” The statement demanded that all ballots be counted. The White House admitted to being stumped by this latest onslaught from the Democrats. “These are ballots being smuggled in from Iran,” President...

I've just spent a couple hours surfing the net trying to get a sense of America's response to the Iraq Vote. As I have read various articles, blog posts, and the most excellent coverage at Pajamas Media I really get a sense that the great divide in our country comes down to a misunderstanding of the history of the middle east, and how controlled they have been by Marxist thought, money, and influence. I was listening to Air Amerika yesterday as I drove my kids to school. I am always more curious to hear the liberal take on events than...

BAGHDAD, Iraq Dec 12, 2005 — Al-Qaida in Iraq and four other Islamic extremist groups denounced this week's parliamentary elections as a "satanic project" that violated God's law, but they stopped short of an explicit threat Monday to attack polling stations. Despite the sound of detonations rumbling across the capital and at least 15 deaths in ongoing violence, early voting went ahead in hospitals, prisons and military bases, and President Bush offered encouraging words from Washington to Iraqi voters. Bush cautioned that the elections "won't be perfect."

Dateline: Washington, D.C. Date: 11-18-05 Tonight at approximately 7pm Eastern, an historic vote will take place in the House of Representatives. The GOP is forcing the Democrats to get their votes on record as to whether troops should be immediately withdrawn from Iraq. This afternoon, I made calls to the offices of Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Majority Whip Roy Blunt, and Rules Chairman David Dreier. The discussion was regarding a quorum. Because the Republicans currently hold 231 seats in the House, they will have a quorum to do business. They need 218 to be present. If a quorum...

We won again! For a second time, the Iraqi people proved the Western mainstream media, Islamist radicals, self-righteous and nihilistic war protestors, disaffected Democrats, and neo-isolationists wrong: the referendum on the new constitution was successful. The Sunni minority participated in the polling and those among them voting "no" were swamped by the positive outcome. Iraq will have its new constitution. The transforming intervention led by President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair will succeed. The global sweep of bourgeois revolution will continue, centering on Iraq's neighbors: monarchical Saudi Arabia, statist Syria, and theocratic Iran. But how long will...

Did anyone catch Charlie Rangel on the tube today (Fox?)? Charlie Rangel said that the Iraqi vote wasn't worth the life of a single American. Hmmm... on a monument in Ohio are inscribed the names of my forebearers, who fought and died so he could be a US Congressman instead of a house slave in a big house on top of the Arlington hill. I used to have some measure of respect for Rangel, knowing that anyone who debated him needed to compre prepared for a real fight. However, recent coverage like this (along with the H-C debacle, and the...

IRAQ: Terrorists Fail to Interfere With Voting January 31, 2005: On election day, there were about half a dozen terrorist attacks, killing 44 people and wounding over a hundred. Despite that, over eight million Iraqis went to vote. The atmosphere across the country was one of triumph, with people proudly displaying their ink stained fingers (so marked to prevent people from voting twice). In Tikrit, Saddam’s home town, former Baath Party officials, and relatives of Saddam, were seen voting. In only a handful of polling places were the terrorists successful in preventing people from voting. It will take 7-10 days...

BERLIN -- The presidents of France and Russia, top opponents of U.S. policy in Iraq, joined world leaders Monday in praising this weekend's landmark Iraqi elections as a success of democracy over terrorism, but the welcome was tempered by concern that Sunni Arabs be included in a future government. French President Jacques Chirac spoke with President Bush by telephone, saying he was satisfied by the "participation rate and the good technical organization." "These elections mark an important step in the political reconstruction of Iraq. The strategy of terrorist groups has partly failed," Chirac said, according to a French presidential spokesman....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brian Jones 202-863-8614 “On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops with elections in Iraq, it's sad that John Kerry has chosen once again to offer vacillation and defeatism. Even after the first free elections in Iraq in more than 50 years John Kerry still believes Iraq is more of terrorist threat than when the brutal tyrant Saddam Hussein was in power and even more remarkably Kerry is now once again for funding our troops, after being for the...

Link below if you can stand the stench from the latest pile by Fisk. All I'm posting is this:

Arabs Say Iraq Vote Gives Democracy a Bad NameFri Jan 28, 2005 08:52 AM ET By Tom Perry CAIRO (Reuters) - President Bush sees Sunday's election in Iraq as a beacon for freedom in the Middle East, but Arab reformers say the poll will set back their cause. Arab human rights activists say the Iraqi election is deeply flawed and will give democracy a bad name. They say violence and the prospect of a Sunni Arab boycott will undermine the poll. Many Arabs, already suspicious of U.S. intentions in Iraq, are also dismissing the vote's credibility because of the presence...

IRVINE – For Iraqis in America this weekend, the mark of freedom is a right index finger stained purple. As they voted Friday at the old El Toro air base, Iraqi expatriates were required to dip that finger in jars of the bright ink, which takes several days to wear off. It will allow authorities to easily identify anyone who tries to vote a second time. All seemed overjoyed to vote once."This is a dream come true," said Sami Aljabiri of Phoenix, who works for a transportation company for disabled children. "For the first time in my life I can...

WASHINGTON (CP) - Congress voted solidly to give President George W. Bush the broad authority he sought to use U.S. military force to confront Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein- with or without UN support. The Democratic-led Senate approved the war resolution 77-23 early Friday, wrapping up an often contentious week-long debate. The House voted for the resolution on Thursday, 296-133. Because the Senate approved the House-passed measure without changing a word, it now goes directly to Bush for his signature. The resolution gives Bush the power to use American military force to enforce United Nations orders that Saddam dispose of his...

WASHINGTON -- The Senate has given final passage to a resolution authorizing President Bush to use military force against Iraq, but neither senator in Vermont voted for it. Sens. Jim Jeffords and Patrick Leahy both voted no on the resolution, as did Rep. Bernie Sanders Thursday. New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton and New Hampshire Sens. Judd Gregg and Bob Smith voted yes. The resolution gives Bush the power to use American military force to enforce United Nations orders that Saddam dispose of his weapons of mass destruction. It encourages Bush to seek U.N. cooperation in such a...