Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Iraqi election

It was a pleasure to watch the Iraqi people take on the opportunity to vote.

Could you imagine what the turn out would be in America if there were people trying to kill us for voting, we had to be frisked and then walk through a metal detector?

There is so much contradicting information about what is happening over there that I have to admit to my own biases.

I want them to find there own form of democracy. I want them to become a beacon in the desert that tells people that they can be free to create their own path.

To often I think we ignore the history of the US. The struggles for independence, the arguments over the type of government, the animosity that ultimately led us to the Civil War, brother against brother; Americans killing Americans.

And here we are today. As dysfunctional as any one in the family of man.

At the cross roads of history.

What path do we take?

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