Posted on 01/30/2005 5:30:41 AM PST by pookie18
News reports of terrorist bombings in Iraq were marred Sunday by shocking graphic images of Iraqi "insurgents" voting by the millions in their first free democratic election.
Despite reporters' hopes that a well-orchestrated barrage of mortar attacks and suicide bombings would put down the so-called 'freedom insurgency', hastily-formed battalions of rebels swarmed polling places to cast their ballots -- shattering the status quo and striking fear into the hearts of the leaders of the existing terror regime.
Hopes for a return to the stability of tyranny waned as rank upon rank of Iraqi men and women filed out of precinct stations, each armed with the distinctive mark of the new freedom guerrillas -- an ink-stained index finger, which one former Ba'athist called "the evidence of their betrayal of 50 years of Iraqi tradition."
Journalists struggled to put a positive spin on the day's events, but the video images of tyranny's traitors choosing a future of freedom overwhelmed the official story of bloodshed and mayhem.
An ink-stained finger marks an Iraqi woman as one of "tyranny's traitors."
Looks like Neurotic Iraqi Wife's finger. Her sanity, I suppose, is another victim of the Occupation.
Too much truth in this one to be considered satire.
FMISF
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If their conspiratorial nonsense had even an ounce of truth to it, the left would be able to tell us which slate the Americans wanted to win and rigged it so they would.
got here from this:
Mark Steyn: The 'civil war' that wasn't
The Australian ^ | 1 February | Mark Steyn
Posted on 01/31/2005 6:11:24 AM PST by Eurotwit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1332544/posts
You've probably seen both, but hey, just in case...
Right on!
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