Q&A: Iraqi Election

Posted January 28, 2005, 12:36 p.m.

With the Iraqi election taking place on Sunday, I thought you all might be interested on learning exactly what the Iraqis get to vote for. The BBC’s Q&A on the Iraqi election is the best I’ve stumbled upon.

It will be interesting to see how this works out, but I’m optimistic. After there is a legitimate, sovereign, elected government running Iraq, I think we’ll see all the attacks and chaos start winding down. God willing, we should be able to start significantly lowering our troop commitment within a year.

One can always hope!

Regardless, I wish the Iraqi people the very best on the eve of their first true chance to exercise political freedom.

Q&A: Iraqi election (BBC News).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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