The View From Saddam’s Jail Cell
I have a friend who doesn’t follow politics, but she watches the news some. Yesterday she told me she hoped that Saddam Hussein’s jail cell had a television in it and that he was forced to watch the people of his country vote all day. If he had he would have listened to voters compare the bogus election he gave them to the one they just participated in, and he would have heard stories about family members that he had tortured and murdered, and he would have seen the joy and vitality the people of his country could have been enjoying for decades if not for him.
Freedom isn’t easy and it sure isn’t cheap, but it is worth the cost. Our troops and their families and the Iraqi people will continue to pay the price for some time to come, and unfortunately there will be more deaths at the hands of madmen. But yesterday was a big step toward a day when elections in Iraq are commonplace and polling places don’t have to be guarded like Fort Knox. It was a great day for the Iraqi people and a bad day for Saddam Hussein and the terrorists and no amount of spinning can change that fact.
Gateway Pundit captures the day in a poem.
— Lorie Byrd