World Leaders Hail Iraq Vote

AFP ^ | January 31, 2005

[Dolphy]

The United Nations, Middle Eastern and European leaders voiced the hope the polls would usher in a speedy return to self-rule in the war-torn country.

A speedy return to self rule? What has it been, 50 years since they held a contested election in Iraq? They aren't returning, they are leading.

[Soul Seeker]

Ah! We hear from Berlusconi! I was hoping to hear from him. A good ally. Poland and Britain solid as well.

The rest are laughable in this list.

I'd also like to give a shout out to Aznar. Sure, his people disappointed him and his successor is worse than Chirac but Azner shares rightly in the glory of the day as well as the troops that shared the buren initially.

[dog breath]

Chirac is plotting as we speak, on how to how to take advantage of the situation. I am sure he is picturing the Arab press headlines now, " France gives it support to Iraqi vote." or how about, " France guarantees it will push for new government's sovereignty." I am sure the countries that hate us will get around to blasting the handling of the election, they will say it was too fast, too slow, too violent or whatever they can run with. However if just for the moment, the worlds leaders must praise the election, they have no choice. The character of the world's leaders will be further revealed by how they respond in the coming weeks.

[Porterville]

Checkmate

[Soul Seeker]

Wonderful list! I'm always afraid to signal some out because I don't wish to diminish the contributions of others. All deserve praise.

Glad you included Aznar's spain and troops.

I'd also like to thank those that "technically" are not involved in the effort because it would cause more tension than necssary, but are helping behind the scenes. Israel for example.

[oldbrowser]

World Leaders Hail Iraq Vote

I love the "forced" smiles on the faces of the MSM and sKerry and company. They look like they just swallowed some bitter medicine. I guess that is exactly what happened.

[David1]

ok...I'm stupid! I don't get it. Can you explain? ;-)

[SierraWasp]

Yeah... I heard the dubious "decorated war hero" say that "no one should get too hyped up about today's Iraq election."

And I say if ANYONE can't get absolutely thrilled with how the US military surgically removed the scourge from Iraq and most to the scourge from Afghanistan in just a little over 36 months and got free and fair elections in the two nations east and north of Iran... well, like the pukin loser from Taxachewsetts, they are totally un-American in my opinion and don't deserve honor by ANYONE!!!

[WestTexasWend]

Are you familiar with "The Little Red Hen"?

http://www.bres.boothbay.k12.me.us/wq/nnash/WebQuest/little_red_hen.htm

Cast the US/Coalition as the Little Red Hen and France, Germany, Belgium, the UN as the other animals. Their sudden praise and enthusiasm for Iraq is just like the greedy, lazy animals appetite for the bread they had no hand in preparing. Sadly, the US WILL share the bread.

[VIDADDICT]

None of this means any thing until we hear from Teddy.[/sarcasm]

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks for posting this, hope you can hear me cheering all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
God Bless GWB & our Brave Troops.

[CyberAnt]

I think it's interesting that the media doesn't differentiate the death count and note that 9 of the deaths were homicide bombers.

[Owl558]

Wow, thats a freat list!

[cake_crumb]

"I'd also like to thank those that 'technically' are not involved in the effort because it would cause more tension than necssary, but are helping behind the scenes. Israel for example."

Israel does indeed deserve thanks for her contribution the war on terror. It's a shame that anti-Semitism is so widespread and hatred of Jews is virulent among Muslims that it was safer to Israeli contribution to remain unofficial. Typing that, there's an immediate feeling of "we can handle it, we're used to it", but deeper down, it does gall

[SierraWasp]

"World Leaders Hail Iraq Vote"

Well, I say to hail with them! They're more than a day late and more than a few billion short!!!

They may have swallowed bitter medicine, but far too many of "them" ripped off the Oil For Food UN scandal instead of doing "the right thing!" Even Jimmy Carter is all mixed up in this monstrousity of a world class rip-off!!!

[David1]

For some reason I have never heard of this cute little sorry. If I did, I don't remember it.

But it is a cute story and now I understand why you posted it. It makes perfect sense now.

[David1]

sorry=story. I pressed the change button on the spell checker by mistake. ;-)

[Mike Darancette]

France: Sacre Merde!

[WestTexasWend]

My pleasure to introduce the story to you. I'm guessing you missed it because you're pretty young. The Little Red Hen is rarely found in children's books of the past 25yrs...too politically incorrect for the liberal set and totally at odds with LBJs Great Society!

[Lazamataz]

World Leaders Hail Iraq Vote

Apparantly, they didn't get the DNC blast fax.