Iraqis Went to the Polls & Saddam Goes on Trial

[Urbane Guerrilla]

So, Iraq spent Sunday going to the polls for their referendum on the new Iraqi Constitution -- I think it deserves a capitalizing. Looks like good ole Yusuf al-Iraqi is tougher than either the terrs trying to blow him up and the naysayers on these shores who have been moaning for a year and a half that this will never work.

Ha! -- looks like the constitution is going to pass, and as written.

This tends very much to vindicate the neocon idea that humans like democracy and will try it any chance they get. Being very persuaded of the worth of democracies and genuine republics myself, I'm very sympathetic to this view.

The forces of tyranny mustered about nineteen attacks total for circa 3700 polling places, and did they manage even nineteen fatalities in these? I reckon it was no coincidence we were giving them a blasting in Ramadi, and to effect, during this election weekend. Kept the other tyranno-bozos' heads down. Keep their heads well down and keep 'em bent over, I say, while we drive the SCAT bus (narsty local pun) -- until they look like a unicorn.

Meanwhile, the Iraqis, more resolute in going for democracy than all the anti-democracy dopes over here, continue their march to something better than all the Saddams of the world could offer. Hats off!

For his sins, Saddam goes on trial starting tomorrow, the nineteenth. There's rumor he might not get tried on every count that might be brought against him because in this first trial, he might get convicted, sentenced to death by hanging, and exhaust his appeals before they finish indicting and trying him on everything else. Well, maybe in due course they could do a variation on those C-4 executions of videotape fame: exhume his dessicated corpse, pack it with plenty of plastic explosive, and blast it to ions. Sic Semper Tyrannis.