From Brit Hume’s interview with Condi Rice:
BRIT HUME, HOST: Characterize, if you will, how well or badly voting has gone in Iraq today.Cool. (Apologies to Nino Tempo and April Stevens).
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: From what we know so far that this has been a historic and triumphant day for the Iraqi people. All of the reports are that they're turning out in large numbers, that Sunnis are turning out in large numbers. The violence has been minimal. There has been some violence, but it's been sporadic and minimal to this point.
Iraqis are going to the polls. I read one story of people going with their children and letting their children dip their fingers in the inkwells to show that they understand the meaning of freedom and democracy.
Ah, the "one Iraqi said" school of progress. Inspiring! Amusingly, back in 1991 I read (and re-read, and re-re-read) one story of brutish German Huns... my mistake, Iraqi soldiers... pulling Kuwaiti babies out of hospital incubators.
ReplyDeleteJust because that inhuman act of cruelty turned out to be made up should not discourage us. Not today, when purple fingers trump all. We are winning the anecdotal war! (Or at least that's what I'm hearing.)
I'm a little upset that nobody appreciated my post title. C'mon, people! It was a #1 hit!
ReplyDeleteYeah, but aren't these Deep Purple lyrics more relevant to Iraq?
ReplyDeletePulling kids out the ground
When it all was over
We had to find another place
But Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky