Iraqis make history
Pay attention -- this is important:
Today, Iraq became the first constitutional republic in the Arab world.
Full disclosure: The photo above isn't from today's election of a permanent government. It's from the election of an interim government last January, and was posted by Ken Blanchard at the South Dakota Politics blog on January 31. Blanchard doesn't cite a source.
In the course of the three rounds of Iraqi voting this year, I've seen a lot of moving election-related photos, but none to match this one. Simply stunning. I've looked at it more than a dozen times, and every time I see that tear in her eye, I get choked up.
From the sublime to the ridiculous: This is the kind of crappy picture you get when you mix red and blue magic marker to simulate purple and then point the camera at yourself. On-camera flash at close distances is pretty awful, but I just had to show my support for the brave people of Iraq -- and the brave Americans who made this day possible!
