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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (103382)	10/23/2011 1:09:46 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

And this is the democracy that people of Tunisia are ushering in because "they fought for it themselves" unlike in Iraq when Bush ordered his military into Iraq and tried to hand over the country to the people without the people having "the fire in their bellies" to fight for it and therefore the fire to preserve it. What a momentous day for democracy. Tunisia holding its elections, Libyans declaring that democracy is just beginning with the overthrow of their dictator. All happening without a single US boot ton the ground or use of US taxpayers' money. I hope that next year the Nobel Peace prize goes not to one single person but to the entire nation of Tunisia and possibly Libya who would have held their elections by then. ============================= Huge Turnout in Tunisia's First Democratic Polls A Tunisian woman holds a national flag with her ink-stained finger after casting her ballot at a voting station in Tunis October 23, 2011. Photo: Reuters A Tunisian woman holds a national flag with her ink-stained finger after casting her ballot at a voting station in Tunis October 23, 2011. Tunisia, whose revolution sparked the "Arab Spring" revolts across North Africa and the Middle East, is again making history, holding its first-ever democratic election. ....contd at voanews.com