Mangled Thoughts

First, 60 % of those eligble to vote turned out. That is an impressive figure, showing also, many Iraqis were not about to cave into the terrorists. The much vaunted day of horror didn’t eventuate either. So quiet, on the whole, that this morning, Fat Aunty Bolshevik Collective, finding no `mass insurrection and murder’ to wallow in, settled for muttering about whether the elction would relsut in a Muslim totalitarian regime, marking, the elction has split the Arab-muslim world - waaaah.

As usual, the Reuters terrorist hugging journos rejoiced in:

Bloody dawn to Iraq democracy
From correspondents in Baghdad
January 31, 2005
From: Reuters

Guard relief … an Iraqi troop outside a polling station yesterday / AFP More pictures IRAQI voters braved a wave of suicide bombers and mortar attacks on polling stations to participate in the country’s landmark election yesterday, with turnout likely to exceed expectations.

Well, as every morning, the terrorists time their bombings for the journos, sipping diaquiries as they lounge about on hotel balconys, to meet the morning news reports deadlines. It wasn’t a massed sucidal attack hitting Baghdad either.

Yes, 37 were murdered by terrorists wearning explosives. It was no onslaught, however, despite Reuter’s most over-wrought description of a mere nine bomblasts:

They struck mainly in Baghdad, rocking the capital with nine suicide blasts in rapid succession. Al-Qaeda’s network in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility.

Hardly the mass slaughter the Islamo-fascist murderers promised.

The day went, on the whole ( the exception being the murder of 34 attending polling booths) well. Not much in it for the terrorist hugging, left dominated media journos to gloat over. It was a another good day for Iraqis., among the many since Saddam’s fall Arthur Chrenkoff has assiduously documented.