Julie with a B

Sunday, January 30, 2005
 
Iraqi elections !
From the NY Times: "Amid attacks a party atmosphere..."

"But if the insurgents wanted to stop people in Baghdad from voting, they failed. If they wanted to cause chaos, they failed. The voters were completely defiant, and there was a feeling that the people of Baghdad, showing a new, positive attitude, had turned a corner.

No one was claiming that the insurgency was over or that the deadly attacks would end. But the atmosphere in this usually grim capital, a city at war and an ethnic microcosm of the country, had changed, with people dressed in their finest clothes to go to the polls in what was generally a convivial mood."

Same sentiments expressed by the guys at "I should have stayed home" and "Cigars in the Sand"


- posted by JulieB @ 9:30 AM
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