There have been a lot of turnout estimates thrown around fast and loose -- hopefully we will have a better indication of the truth soon. But the International Organization for Migration (IOM) seems to have learned some propaganda techniques from the previous Iraqi...
There is much speculation floating around about the tragic crash of the British C-130 Hercules yesterday which occurred barely twenty miles northwest of Baghdad. While the BBC reports in Ten feared dead in Hercules crash that "...wreckage from the C-130 plane, which...
Andrew Gilligan, of the London Evening Standard, reporting from Iraq: "Groups of men sat outside their shops, showing each other the ink-marked index fingers they got when they voted. It was a Shia area. so no problems about turnout. No doubt about what voters wanted...
Getting beyond all the self-congratulatory hype in the American media, the London Independent offers this perspective from Iraq: "The Americans have repeatedly charged that Iran was interfering in the election and bankrolling Shia Islamist parties such as Dawa and the...
My Monday column calls the election "Sistani's Triumph," and suggests that the government that comes out of Sunday's poll will be closer to the Iranian model than the American system. Here's the conservative columnist Terry Jeffries, in a column published in May of...
I'm live-blogging Pat Buchanan and David Frum squaring off on "Hardball" with Chris Matthew. There's Commissar Frum looking smarmy and green. Ewww... And there's Pat, looking his usual great self. Frum :This is part of a broader struggle. This shows the entire Middle...
No warbots will be quoting Raed today. He is mad. By Raed's calculation, turnout was less than 50%, at best, counting expats. Vote For Food In other news.... Get ready for The Morning After:Mosul - The local electoral commission representative only began his work in...
The London Telegraph speculates:An RAF C130 Hercules transport aircraft, believed to have been carrying SAS troops, crashed 20 miles north-west of Baghdad yesterday. Rescue helicopters flew over the crash site searching for any sign of life. But with the wreckage said...
Here's a great post by swopa at needlenose to take you step by step on how we got to this day of triumph for Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who, by the way, did not vote because he is Iranian.
When you erect the goalposts just beyond the line of scrimmage and make them 500-bodies wide, it's hard not to kick the ball of ridiculously low expectations through. Yes, it's great that Iraq's elections turned out less bloody than even the warbots anticipated, but...
