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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2005-01-31

One More Thought

On the democratic pilgrimage thousands of Iraqis undertook in walking from Abu Graib to Gaziliyah to cast their ballots:

kinda puts Jesse Jackson's claims of "disenfranchisement" to shame, considering that what he was complaining about was people waiting in lines in the rain. And, as near as I can tell, waiting without any threat of being shot at or blown up.

If only those who merely lost had any idea of how precious many consider the opportunity just to participate.

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