What is a passing grade?
President Bush can sound grandios and pragmatic all at once. In his mind, at least when articulated to the public, the Iraq war is a success. While accepting the fact many Iraqis will not vote this weekend, he believes that he has planted a flag of liberty, and that "the fact that they're voting in itself is successful."Yes, compared to 30 years of Saddam, a free election itself does sound pretty good. He had me going for a while, until I remembered something.
Saddam had been gone for nearly two years.
If you wanted an election that is merely free, but disregard any security concern, we could have had one in May of 2003. Now to think of it, back then it was actually a lot quieter. Turn out may have been higher without an impending civil war hanging over everyone's head.
Why didn't they hold an election then? Well, clearly any idiot knows that securing WMDs is more urgent than securing the lifelihood of millions of people.
So in essence, as the pioneer for the new history of freedom, what have we done for the Iraqi people in the last 21 months towards securing their "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," and what grade does the Bush administration deserves on this demo-nation project?
posted by hedgehog @ 6:25 PM
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