Elections Are Coming!

An Oldie but A Goodie!!!

This Post first ran in January of 2005!

Elections are coming!

How’s that? We just completed an election and an Inaugural, right? So, what gives?

Iraq gives, that’s what!

The first democratic election is to be held in Iraq this weekend. The first ever! Registration for these elections is very high and a turnout of 80% or more is expected. That will surpass the 60% record turnout of the US in November 2004! (And nobody was shooting at us, or trying to blow us up at the polling places.)

Our old friends in the “Main Stream Media”(read “democratic controlled” media) are telling us, already, how these elections will fail. How the Iraqis will never accept them as legitimate, and we should put them off for another six months. If the Press had its way, there would be no elections in Iraq, period! As a matter of fact, if they had their way, Hussein would still be in power in Iraq!

This barrage of negativism from the “MSM” (Main Stream Media) was not unexpected. Their hatred of George Bush exceeds their loyalty to this country. They want our efforts in the Middle East, especially Iraq, to fail. Anything that might cause President Bush, and the Republicans, to look good must fail. And they will do everything in their power to make that happen. They have yet to understand that their efforts, in support of the Democratic Candidate in out own recent elections, did more harm to the political party they support than, the stumbling, and fumbling, of their totally inept candidate. But, hey, that’s OK by me. We’ll take all the help we can get.

The sooner the elections are held in Iraq, the sooner US troops can get out of that hellhole. Little by little, we will down grade our garrison there… after the elections. We will never again be able to leave the Iraqi people totally alone, because the trouble makers will re-take the government and return it to the pre-war dictatorship, which was alive and well before US troops hit the sand and snatched Hussein from his hole in the ground.

No, the US now has a permanent presence in the Persian Gulf area. We’re there forever. Why, because that’s where the oil is. Until the leftist “tree-huggers” lay off and allow us to knock holes in the tundra in Alaska, and get that oil, we have no choice but to keep those middle eastern oil fields available to the nations of the west. More US young people will die. But, the tree huggers think more of caribou than humans anyway, so they don’t seem to mind when the lives of America’s youth is spent to keep their cars running and their homes heated and their office’s running, etc..

The thing is… we have to have to give the people of Iraq a shot at democracy. Democracy may never work there. But, we have to see to it that those people have a chance at it. Once they have tasted the freedom of democracy an enemy will be hard pressed to force them to return to the repression of former days.

Will Democracy work in the Middle East? It has in Israel. But, will it work in an Arabic/Islamic country? Frankly, I don’t know. There must be a pretty good chance it will… else, why are those Islamists fighting so hard to keep it out of those theocratic countries? It would seem they, the terrorists, believe in the power of democracy more than our own US citizens, especially those in the press. (You know… the MSM.)

So, as the elections approach this coming weekend, we can watch the terror attacks increase in numbers and in ferocity, both by the terrorists, and by our own Main Stream Media and… the left wing in our very own country.

Look, I want our troops out of Iraq as much as the next guy. I mean, they need to rest up and clean their gear and… get ready for the invasion if Iran.

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”