Iraq Constitution-On the Blogs

If you listen to the mainstream media, every success in Iraq means civil war is pending. Thank God for the alternate media, the bloggers. Here is a roundtable of some of the best:

Austin Bay, Kaafari echoes a sentiment I heard last year while serving on active duty in Iraq. Several Iraqis I spoke with told me they knew democracy was “our big chance.” One man said it was Iraq’s chance to “escape bad history.” To paraphrase a couple of other Iraqis: toppling Saddam and building a more open society was a chance “to enter the modern world.” .

Thomas Barnett As always, whenever the Bush administration helps to pull off an election in Iraq, you have to hand it to them. Poor job on occupation, no doubt, but this thing keeps muddling through.

Murdoc Online Hard to believe that the Shiites and Kurds would act in their own best interests. Oh. Wait. THAT'S THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS!

Blogs for Bush As I write this on Sunday evening, it appears certain that the Iraqi's, in a massive turn-out election, have approved their Constitution. The War on Terrorism still has a long way to go until victory, but the liberation of Iraq is, in the larger sense, complete.

Strategypage The successful referendum underscores just how impotent al Qaeda has become since the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. Four years ago, al Qaeda was able to launch a coordinated attack that killed 3,000 people in the United States. Now, al Qaeda has proven unable to oppose the United States after American troops have liberated two countries in al Qaeda’s backyard.