Monday, January 31, 2005

Yahoo! News - On election day, elation and payback

Need a picker upper?

Yahoo! News - On election day, elation and payback: "Weeks of trepidation turned into a near-celebration through much of Iraq (news - web sites) on election day. Despite suicide bombs and mortar attacks, millions of Iraqis - Kurds and Shiites, though fewer Sunnis - showed up to vote in Iraq's first free elections in half a century. With most traffic banned for fear of car bombs, they walked to the polls and carried elderly relatives in chairs. They ignored the sound of explosions. Some prayed while they waited in line. Others cried after they had cast their ballots."

And we take Democracy for granted.

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