I wasn't ignoring the news, I've just been away from the blog, and I actually wrote this last night but kept it in draft mode, thinking I'd add to it today. I'm real happy to hear of the enthusiastic turnout for the Iraqi election. I pray for them, that they will have a government that respects righteousness, justice, and liberty.
My co-author and brother-in-law, Rick Penner, writes that this event is as big as the fall of the Berlin Wall. I think he's on the mark there, though I didn't have quite as intense a reaction as what I remember from November 9, 1989. Still it's wonderful, and making it sweeter still, according to the Washington Times (hat tip James Taranto at OpinionJournal's BOTW), we haven't heard from former President Carter, or his best friends Michael Moore and George Soros, whose silence speaks volumes about how American leftists really view "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
God bless Iraq.