Can you imagine how long they have to wait in line? (of course the wait in line is short compared to the life long wait they have had to endure to vote in a free election.)
Key Events Since the U.S.-Led Invasion of Iraq
Key events since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq: 2003
March 20 - U.S.-led coalition launches Operation Iraqi Freedom to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
April 9 - U.S. troops swarm into Baghdad and jubilant crowds topple 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdous Square.
May 1 - President Bush declares major combat operations in Iraq are over.
July 13 - U.S.-named 25-member National Governing Council of prominent Iraqis takes office.
Aug. 19 - Truck bomb wrecks United Nations offices, killing 23 people, including U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.
Nov. 15 - Plan to transfer power to interim Iraqi government by July 2004 approved.
Dec. 13 - Saddam captured in Adwar, 10 miles south of Tikrit. 2004
March 8 - Iraqi Governing Council signs interim constitution.
April 30 - First graphic photographs shown of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by smiling U.S. military police at Abu Ghraib prison; scandal causes outrage in the region.
May 28 - Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, longtime anti-Saddam exile and CIA ally, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
June 1 - Governing Council names Ghazi al-Yawer, critic of U.S.-led occupation, as president. Council dissolves.
June 8 - U.N. Security Council approves U.S.-British timetable for interim regime, elections and adoption of constitution.
June 28 - Occupation authority turns formal power over to Allawi's interim government.
July 1 - Saddam, arraigned before judge, rejects charges of war crimes and genocide.
Aug. 12 - U.S. military begins major offensive against militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in holy city of Najaf.
Aug. 27 - Al-Sadr's militia leaves Najaf's Imam Ali Shrine and hands control to Shiite religious authorities.
Sept. 7 - U.S. military deaths in Iraq campaign pass 1,000.
Sept. 16 - Number of foreigners kidnapped during insurgency reaches at least 100.
Oct. 6 - Top U.S. arms inspector finds no evidence Saddam's regime produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
Nov. 1 - Voter and candidate registration begin for national election.
Nov. 7 - Allawi's government announces two-month state of emergency in all but Kurdish-ruled northern areas as a tool in fight against insurgents.
Nov. 8 - U.S. troops begin weeklong offensive to break insurgents' control of Fallujah.
Nov. 21 - Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30 as date for election.
Dec. 15 - Beginning of political campaigns by candidates, but violence makes public campaigning virtually impossible.
Dec. 21 - Bombing in mess tent at U.S. military base in Mosul kills 24 wounds more than 60.
Dec. 27 - Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in audiotape, endorses Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and calls for election boycott. 2005
Jan. 4 - Gunmen assassinate Baghdad Gov. Ali al-Haidari.
Jan. 6 - Iraq extends state of emergency by 30 days.
Jan. 17 - Voter registration for Iraqi expatriates begins in 14 countries.
Jan. 26 - 31 U.S. servicemen die in helicopter crash and six others killed in insurgent ambushes, making deadliest day for Americans since Iraq invaded.
Jan. 28 - Overseas Iraqis begin three days of voting in 14 nations.
Jan. 30 - Voters in Iraq cast ballots for 275-seat National Assembly.
AP-ES-01-30-05 0434EST
How many hours in 35 years?....kinda puts it in perspective...
Praise God!
Does anyone recall the numbers killed during the election in Afghanistan?
God Bless and protect the Iraqi people who have the courage to go out and vote.
My heart is joyful at this early morning hour. These people show me that our efforts and sacrifices in Iraq have not been in vain.
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
Longer than the people in Ohio that dems decried so loudly.