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With a reported 72% turnout (shaming the US and many other established democracies), the Iraqi election was a resounding success! Props to the brave Iraqis who are taking their first steps into democracy and towards a stable, peaceful government and to the troops and governments (most notably ours) who made it possible. Though the struggle will continue for much longer, if the people of Iraq and Afghanistan (who had their successful elections last year) and the coaltion forces remain brave and determined, these efforts will become the greatest success stories sinced the rebuilding of Europe and Japan after WWII.

On our own front, let this be a great blow to the critics of the war and the administration - critics whose pessimism was purely motivated in partisanship, not by facts. Surely, they hoped, either secretly or overtly, that more blood of Iraqis and our troops would be shed just so they could feel affirmed.

Let us also be critical of mainstream media, which has so far given poor coverage of this historic occassion. While they have covered every roadside bomb incident and military vehicular accident like hawks to paint an overly dark image of everyday Iraqi life, they have paid relatively cursory coverage to an election that is almost as important to us as one of our own. Certainly, if the day's events had been more unfortunate, mainstream media would have plastered us with coverage, thereby fueling the aforementioned critics.

Thank goodness for the independent bloggers - the Iraqis, soldiers and civilian westerners travelling to Iraq to give us a more complete image of the successful growth and daily life in Iraq.