Andromeda

Certainly, congratulations are in order -- to the Iraqi people for holding their elections on Sunday to elect a National Assembly, which will draft a constitution. But it is equally certain, if perhaps less important, that the Bush Administration did an excellent job of lowering expectations: the President was able to declare the elections a "resounding success", even though nearly a hundred innocent people were killed or wounded in the process, and British and American troops died as well. And that with a near-total shut-down of civil liberties for a day. But democracy is on the march. Stomping down a street near you. Now, if they can draft a constitution, and hold another election, and train and man their army and police forces, and re-build their infrastructure, then our troops can finally leave. For Iran.