"Why is CNN showing montages of year old bombings and insurgent activity?"
Because this was maybe their last chance to crush Bush's place in history.
The fire is going out, they've broken up and burned all the furniture, and all that's left to burn are the clothes on their backs.
An Iraqi woman raises her hands as she gets searched before entering a polling station in the southern city of Basra, January 30, 2005. Iraq (news - web sites)'s first multiparty polls in half a century began at dawn on Sunday, elections intended to unite the country but which could instead foment sectarian strife and which insurgents have vowed to turn into a bloodbath. REUTERS/Atef Hassan
An Iraqi woman smiles after dipping her finger to ink, before casting her ballot in a polling station in Baghdad, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005.Iraqis voted Sunday in their country's first free election in a half-century, defying threats of violence from insurgents vowing to sabotage the balloting. (AP Photo/Mohammed Uraibi)
An Iraqi police officer (R) casts his ballot during the country's national elections early morning in the southern city of Basra, January 30, 2005. Iraq (news - web sites)'s first multiparty polls in half a century began at dawn on Sunday, elections intended to unite the country but which could instead foment sectarian strife and which insurgents have vowed to turn into a bloodbath. REUTERS/Atef Hassan
Iraqi men walk past barbed wire as they line up to vote at a polling station in Baghdad January 30, 2005. Iraq (news - web sites)'s first multiparty polls in half a century began at dawn on Sunday, elections intended to unite the country but which could instead foment sectarian strife and which insurgents have vowed to turn into a bloodbath. REUTERS/Akram Saleh