Text 8431, 75 rader
Skriven 2005-02-02 12:09:45 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 8405 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
Ärende: Iraqi Vote
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02 Feb 05 06:00, TIM RICHARDSON wrote to STAN HARDEGREE:

 TR> On 02-01-05, STAN HARDEGREE said to ED CONNELL:

 EC>>>> Last, I salute the Iraqi people who turned out in such
 EC>>>> numbers despite the real threats from the scum who oppose
 EC>>>> their freedom.

 EC>>>> SALUTE!

 SH>>> SALUTE!

 SH>>> And well said, sir!

 EC>> Thank you for that kindness - and one more opportunity to
 EC>> give a SALUTE!


 SH>>The Iraqi people have created (or will create) a refuge for people 
 SH>>in the Middle East who wish to be free.  Their courage has sent a 
 SH>>message to othe despot in the Middle East that their days are 
 SH>>numbered.

 TR> The Iraqis showed more guts on Sunday than many Americans display 
 TR> every four years; they went out and voted.

 TR> I seem to recall hearing about people having to stand in long 
 TR> lines to vote in November.

 TR> Sunday, Iraqis *gladly* stood in long lines to cast their vote for 
 TR> the first time in many decades.

 TR> Americans drive to a polling place, and then leave simply because 
 TR> the parking lot is full. Iraqis were walking to polling places, being 
 TR> carried, wheeled there in wheel chairs, going on crutches.

I heard one report during the day Sunday talking about some of the people up
north of Tikrit walking for a couple of days to get to a polling place on
Sunday so they could vote.  THAT takes dedication and burning desire.

 TR> The Iraqi citizens put the `fair weather' Americans to shame, 
 TR> Sunday. I'm proud of them. And I didn't hear about any of them writing in 
 TR> the name of some washed-up WWC wrestler just to waste their vote, either. 
 TR> Nor have I heard of any ballots that had Osama bin Laden's name written in

 TR> by the voter, and marked as a vote.

If democracy holds, after awhile they will get more blase about voting, and
then you'll see some of that sort of thing.  It won't be anytime soon though.

 TR> This success for the citizens of Iraq spells the beginning of the 
 TR> end for Middle Eastern terrorists. Their days are numbered. I expect that 
 TR> soon the ordinary citizenship of Iraq and some other Mid-East countries 
 TR> will begin to rise up against the criminal terrorists in their midst. 
 TR> Sunday in Iraq just may have been the push that starts the boulder rolling

 TR> down hill. Once it picks up momentum, nothing can stop it.

Your analogy reminds me of the collapse of Soviet Russia.  When Reagan said
"Tear down this wall" to Gorbachev, it set a tiny pebble rolling downhill that
before long had started a whole lot of pebbles.  Then they started chipping
away at the Berlin Wall and I was waiting for the East German guards to start
firing on them.  When the guards started HELPING, I knew the boulder had
started to roll, and before long, the entire Soviet bloc was coming apart at
the seams.  Its pretty cool to watch history being made and to realize it as
you watch.


John 

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