Too early to call election a success (Nichols)

he has style and is right on!!

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=26809&ntpid=13

Too early to call election a success

By John Nichols
February 1, 2005

The images of Iraqis crowding polling places for that country's first free election in a half century were both moving and hopeful. The voting, while marred by violence, irregularities and boycotts, went off more smoothly than had generally been predicted.

Unfortunately, President Bush and his aides could not let the images speak for themselves. The White House spin machine had to leap, even before the last votes were cast, to the conclusion that what happened Sunday was a "turning point" in the painful history of that battered country.

The claim is another example of the sort of wishful thinking that has so frequently trumped reality when it comes to the administration's approach to Iraq in particular and the Middle East in general.

Invariably, when the Bush administration tries to tell the world how to interpret images from Iraq, it leaps to conclusions that are far removed from reality.

flew bush in and trotted him out on an aircraft carrier and flew the banner.."MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"?..that kind of seperation from reality?

Or would be, if I was that smart.

Thanks for posting.

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