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Quothe Rush: “The Democratic Party lost it’s second election in three months yesterday in Iraq!”

How true.

Update:

He just said one of the suicide bombers yesterday in Iraq, or at least the one who was successful, was a child with Downs Syndrome? Anyone else hear that?

I’m listening to what Lileks felt like yesterday. Too true.

Update II: (this entry, obviously, is an amalgamation of bloggy gloating)

I’m just glad I’m stupid enough to be hopeful. I’m glad I’m naive enough to suspect Iraqis actually wanted to vote. I’m very glad I’m not so aslosh with solipsistic hatred that any success in Iraq makes me trot out a cynical riposte so the rest of my buddies on Olympus will nod in wry assent. I’m glad that a picture of a mother holding her daughter to cast the ballot reminds me that this is number two in a series. All other things aside – which is a difficult thing to posit, I know – I’m glad to be on the side of holding elections. In the end I’m glad to be glad. And now I will go skip through the daisies and sing happy songs about bunnies, because I am obviously a fool. What was the cover story of the Village Voice I saw in the library today? “Bush’s plan to destroy the world.” Destroy it some more, George.

That’s exactly what I was trying to articulate to Peter last night when we went to bed.

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Update III:

Ah, here, The Black Informant found it:

Terrorists used a disabled child as a suicide bomber on election day, Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Naqib said today.

In all, 44 people were killed in a total of 38 bomb attacks on polling stations. Police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down’s syndrome.

Mr Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while preventing one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside a polling station.