This is the picture I was trying to post yesterday. It is a palace across the moat from us that Saddam reportedly built for his daughter. Tomorrow is election day here in Iraq. I know that many are very skeptical about how successful the election will be but we have to remember that democracy takes time. Remember that the US was born in 1776 but fought a civil war in the 1860's . I hope the Iraqis will be able to take care of their own country soon. The region filled the vacuum we allowed to be created after the fall of Saddam and the vacuum that would be created by us leaving precipitously would, I feel, destabilize the whole region even more than it already is. Anyway, I try to pray every day that nobody dies tomorrow. Sometimes it works.
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