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13:08 - I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it
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So is this, more than anything else we've seen to date, not the very definition of "dead-enders"?
All the media keeps talking about is how happy the Iraqis are, how high turnout was, and how "freedom" has spread to Iraq. I had to turn off CNN because they kept focusing on the so-called "voters" and barely mentioned the resistance movements at all. Where are the freedom fighters today? Are their voices silenced because some American puppets cast a few ballots?
I can't believe the Iraqis are buying into this "democracy" bullshit...
Fortunately there are some in the comments with the ability to come back from the brink of pure insanity and refute this garbage. But this kind of thing seems to be all that's in the news today, all that anyone's talking about.
I have not yet read, in fact, a single news story or blog post that mentions any projection of who won the election. Though for accounts of the casualties from terror attacks and protests against the horror of democracy around the world, well, I have to stick to Spongebob and Sailor Moon fan sites to avoid them.
This is what it felt like on November 3, too. What should have been a great, elating victory turns into the somber, frustrated surveying of a field of battle where nobody even has the heart to cheer.
UPDATE: Tim Blair's coverage makes for reassuring reading. Except if you're one of the Leftern naysayers, though. I keep thinking that if they had any sense or honor they'd be wallowing in introspection and shame today, but... I guess we all know better than that.
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Brian Tiemann
