Posted on 09/27/2004 3:14:45 AM PDT by WolveMarine
As the people of Iraq prepare to hold their first free elections, an international chorus is calling for the polls to be postponed.
The chorus includes the “usual suspects” who are still sore that Saddam Hussein is in jail, awaiting trial, rather than in power, killing people and distributing largesse.
The first noises about postponement came from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan who dropped hints that his outfit might not supervise the elections. Those noises found an echo in Paris where Iraq is sill seen as a “quagmire”. Some elements in the American Democrat Party, though not Sen. John Kerry himself, have also made similar noises, mostly in the hope of presenting Iraq as another “Bush failure.”
What are the arguments for postponing the election?
(Excerpt) Read more at arabnews.com ...
The third argument is the one most often aired these days. It goes something like this: terrorist attacks, especially suicide-bombings, make it impossible to organize the poll in several localities. Translated into practical politics this argument is nothing but a call for transferring the initiative to terrorists who have stated that their chief goal is to prevent any elections in Iraq. In other words, we are invited to let enemies of democracy decide when and how Iraq should have an election.
This is not the first time that the postponement party calls on the Iraqi people and the US-led coalition to, in effect, surrender to the terrorists.
IMO they should try Saddam before elections are held, and if he is to be executed, do it immediately.
I suspect that things will quiet down considerably after that.
Then hold elections.
Hold free elections and damn the terrorists.
IMHO, the Saddam trial should take about ten minutes. The whole world KNOWS what he has done.
The execution part should occur immediately afterward and should last alot longer.
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