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I decided to take a break from belittling the System Internationale and present a little good news. The elections were successful, the government is working, but the best part is that Saddam, himself, gets to see the progress. The New York Times notes the most wonderful detail of the naming of Jalal Talabani as the new president of Iraq:

Bekhtiyar Amin, the human rights minister and a Kurd, said in a telephone interview that Mr. Hussein and 11 of his top aides watched Wednesday's proceedings, held in the fortified Green Zone, on a television in their detention center near the Baghdad airport. The idea to provide Mr. Hussein with a television for the occasion was taken to Mr. Amin by Kosrat Rasoul, a top official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Kurdish party that Mr. Talabani founded, Mr. Amin said.

"We want them to know that they are not presidents or ministers or anything other than prisoners," Mr. Amin said. "Their time is over."

Those Middle Easterners are certainly experts in the art of humiliation. Meanwhile, Voice of America reports that Talabani and his vice presidents have named Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, as prime minister, as expected.

Incredibly, there are still people who insist that the liberation of Iraq is a failure.

I decided to take a break from belittling the System Internationale and present a little good news. The elections were successful, the government is working, but the best part is that Saddam, himself, gets to see the progress. The New York Times notes the most wonderful detail of the naming of Jalal Talabani as the new president of Iraq:

Those Middle Easterners are certainly experts in the art of humiliation. Meanwhile, Voice of America reports that Talabani and his vice presidents have named Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite, as prime minister, as expected.

Incredibly, there are still people who insist that the liberation of Iraq is a failure.


This is good news. The process will take time and I think reasonable people understand that. I continue to hope these positive developments gain momentum and people with open minds continue to support ,strengthen and stabilize the government there for the betterment and progress of the people.