[msnimje]

“did you hear that many polling places in Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad were empty yesterday. People are fed up and chose not to vote.”

This is hearsay at best and a "loser's limp" at best.

I refuse to be pessimistic about the future of Iraq. I refuse to believe the Iraqi people are too stupid to form a thriving democracy. I refuse to believe that almost 40 years of torture and misery have not lit the fire of freedom in the belly of most Iraqis.

[bnelson44]

Well they got 70% turn out, so someone voted ;)

[r9etb]

a "loser's limp" at best

LOL! Nice turn of phrase.

[Howlin]

Accentuate the negative.

[Owl558]

"I refuse to believe the Iraqi people are too stupid to form a thriving democracy. I refuse to believe that almost 40 years of torture and misery have not lit the fire of freedom in the belly of most Iraqis."

Before EVERY milestone in Iraq, the media types come out and make asses out of themselves predicting gloom and endless doom. Remember how in the run up to war, we were going to lose it? And during the ground war, it was a quagmire. When our army was poised on the outskirts of Bagdad, they said were surely going to lose the house-to-house fighting. Before the first election they said it could never happen. Once it was over, they said it was great, but that there was going to be a civil war....

And freakin' on and on and on.

From the Cold war to the Gulf War and now Iraq, the vomited media-conventional wisdom has been WRONG!