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One Iraqi comments on their election.
Yesterday Iraqis successfully passed another chapter of the democratic transformation of their country. We’re not sure if we put the right choice on the ballot paper put I’m 100% sure that Iraqis made the right choice by resorting to the ballot boxes to the solve their problems.Posted by The Vorlon at December 16, 2005 12:03 PMA dear friend of mine sent me a few words to express his happiness and hope and I think his words reflect what millions of Iraqis felt about yesterday’s historic event.
He asked me to share his words with you, and I am:Like eyelashes close in delight upon the sight of one's lover, the boxes closed their lips on Iraqis’ ballots. The tyrants forced us to remain silent for decades but yesterday our fingers spoke out loud in purple. The fingers wore their purple wedding dress while the enemies wore the black of hatred and evil. Elections have become the new tradition of Iraqis, those new democrats who proudly want to show the world their new experiment but on the other side there are our “cousins†who still want us to go back to the sheep barn.We marched to vote and we respected our differences while Saddam is creeping in his cage chewing on his hatred.
From 59 to 64 to 70%...in one year our people have proven that the future belongs to them and not those whose claws scarred Iraq’s neck.
A few bombs and some bullets, that’s all what the terrorists could do to interrupt the carnival in Baghdad. The people heard the explosions but those weren’t loud enough to distract the marching hearts from their destination. I saw our policemen yesterday showing their hearts too when they refused to wear their armors, maybe because they didn’t want to let anything stand between our hearts from theirs.
I asked an election official about the problems they faced. He answered laughing:
“Iraqis are like sweet fruit, and their sweetness lies in their big hearts and meeting them at the voting station yesterday was enjoyable like eating a good plate of sweets! They cast their ballots while I enjoyed the Iraqi symphony of patriotismâ€.
It was a day of happiness for Iraqis and a day of loss for the strangers who thought their camels brought them to a land void of patriots.
It is a day we will await to come again for four long years…to do the right thing again or to correct the mistake if we did one yesterday.
Anyway, I believe we left a mark on the face of history, a purple mark that will not be forgotten easily.God bless Iraq and Iraq’s friends throughout this world. It wasn’t our day alone; it was your day too.