Iraqis Vote, Lefties Whine

Just read this excellent take on yesterday's Iraqi elections and the lefties who can't stand it.

Polls had to stay open an extra hour due to long lines. Some 80 percent of Saddam’s home province voted. Anbar province ran out of ballots as children danced in its peaceful streets. Four times as many people turned out in Tall Afar this time over last. Even in the former terrorist stronghold of Fallujah – where 70 percent of the populace cast ballots this week – Mayor Dari Abdul Hadi Zubaie said, “Right now, the city is experiencing a democratic celebration.” He compared the municipal euphoria to the Arab world’s most joyful celebration, a wedding. (In fact, a Kurdish couple got married at a polling center.)

Voting, celebration of democracy, dancing children. Sweet.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi greeted news of Thursday’s massive democratic triumph by – stepping up calls for an immediate withdrawal. At a press conference, she euphemistically purred, “I think the Iraqi people are ready and willing now to take matters into their own hands.” Sen. Ted Kennedy chimed in, “If America wants a new Iraqi government to succeed, we need to let Iraqis take responsibility for their own future.”

Loony lefties still whining to #$&! things up for the Iraqi people, and spit in the face of our brave men and women who have died and continue to put their lives on the line. Oh, so sour.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, in a floor speech recycled as an official press release for all House Democrats, claimed Murtha “spoke for the majority of our country.” Further:

Our forces are drawing fire, not suppressing it. Their presence on foreign soil is serving as a catalyst for all those who wish to do us, and Iraq, harm. Insurgent attacks are on the rise.

She also decried U.S. GI’s “shameful acts of torture” and called all those who dare question the wisdom of unilateral surrender “name-calling, sand throwing bullies.”

A steaming pile of crap would taste better than this. No, wait...this IS a steaming pile of crap.

I am ashamed to hear such spineless, insulting, self-righteous rhetoric fall from the lips of any American, let alone one who is serving at the pleasure of the people.

I betcha Iraqi citizen & voter Betty Dawisha would agree.

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