Chrenkoff's essential Good News in Iraq is up again. This week there's also this post which makes for even better reading- a recent poll in Iraq shows that 88% of people will take part in a vote on the constitution. 84% support giving women the same rights as men, 60% said that a minimum of 25% mandatory representation of women in the assembly was sufficientwhile 21% said that the minimum number should be raised to 33%. So over a fifth want more women to be in the assembly! As if that wasn't promising enough, the GNFI reports that more and more Sunnis are getting involved in the democratic process- sure a lot of them will vote "no" on the constitution- but that's not the point. The point is that they are now seeing that the fight has to take place at the ballot box- not with a car bomb.
Despite all the doom and gloom coming from the MSM and the left-wing, things in Iraq are getting better by the day. Life goes on. One thing I would like to point out is that the Left constantly harps on about "imposing" democracy- can't they see that we're not imposing anything, we're giving it a chance to flourish? There's a big difference. I wonder what excuse they'll come up with now to not see the progress being made now that the Sunnis have seen the inevitability of them joining in the political process?
As always, Chrenkoff has done a sterling job- there's an awful lot of good news there but it is worth reading it all.
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