Rejoicing in Democracy: Rejoicing for what exactly?

» suitewoman - Rejoicing for what exactly?

Appreciated your article and I agree with your point that we can benefit by examining our own elections in this country more closely, as in raising a serious collective objection to permissive disenfranchisment of the voter.

Dahr Jamail, an un-embedded journalist in Iraq, reports a different version of elections in Iraq. He reports that the Iraqi people were told if they did not vote, they would not get their food rations. He also reports on a heart-wrenching example of an Iraqi injured seriously in a bombing and the unavailability of medical attention, from anywhere in Iraq.

Some of the troops were sent out in their under-armored humvees and tanks to door-bell at Iraqi homes to get out the vote. One American soldier was killed while on this door-knocking campaign.

We don't really know what the Iraqis were celebrating; the hope of the end of American occupation, the hope of control of their lives, the hope of basic living necessities as water, food, electricity, the hope of promise of the beginning of an end to the carnage.

Not challenging your points, I hope adding some additional information for consideration.

-- posted by suitewoman