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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (440675)	12/15/2008 10:14:00 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572145

Proof that democracy really has taken root in Iraq when journalists there already take it for granted ... Ten, it really is -- it is absolute proof of a lot of things "they" said would never happen. Remember, only a couple years ago we had the tejeks of the world telling us Iraq would collapse into total disarray, civil war even. Yet, while the media was having a field day over the shoe-thrower incident, it was almost without mention that the Iraqi Parliament (comprised of all three factions that tejek claimed would be at civil war by now) voted nearly unanimously on a security agreement with the United States that will effectively end the war. When it was over, only 30 Sadr-ists and a few Sunnis voted against the agreement. Suni and Shia alike supported it, and it was signed into law without fighting in the streets. Where was the media on this tiny little event? Nowhere to be found. Too busy covering the shoe-throwing. That Iraq, a country of 26 Million, has developed a Constitution and a political structure and is holding elections in 5 years is amazing. It took 10 for our own country, with 10% that many inhabitants to do the same. And we had Founding Fathers who pretty much were in agreement as to the direction the country ought to take.