Kerry shows us again (by opening his mouth) why he's not fit to be president.

[dude1394]

SEN. KERRY: ... it is significant that there is a vote in Iraq. But no one in the United States or in the world-- and I'm confident of what the world response will be. No one in the United States should try to overhype this election. This election is a sort of demarcation point, and what really counts now is the effort to have a legitimate political reconciliation, and it's going to take a massive diplomatic effort and a much more significant outreach to the international community than this administration has been willing to engage in. Absent that, we will not be successful in Iraq.

MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe this election will be seen by the world community as legitimate?

SEN. KERRY: A kind of legitimacy--I mean, it's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

Comments from da captain

Well, Senator, seventy-two percent did vote. Questioning the legitimacy of an election in which three-quarters of the eligible voters participated just sounds like sour grapes, a refusal to acknowledge that Bush may have been right all along, while Kerry's murky suggestions of the presidential campaign to slow down would have been disastrous. Typical

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Typical indeed.

[Mavdog]

he's right about it being "significant". he's right that we shouldn't "overhype this election", I'm sure you'll agree that the election is at best symbolic and the real solution is a functioning government of iraq.

will this election make that a reality? we will see, it's a good step forward. tomorrow will be just the same as yesterday in iraq tho, it's going to take more.

IMO it's legitimate enough for the type of election it was. Bush should send something to al sistani, he owes him bigtime. but then again bush did a huge favor to al sistani when he threw out hussein.

the good news is there were very few attacks, the insurgents were shown to be weak.