That's what happened to the Al QaQaa munitions--they were cleared out to make room for the voting machines.

The same set of lies the MSM has been telling about SDI and the end of the USSR. they still say it was all going to happen anyway even after the last head of the USSR and Lech Walesa both said at Ronnie's funeral in June that SDI caused Communism to die in Europe.
We are winning the War on terror. At least after Iraq's exceptionally successful election they dropped 'QUAGMIRE" from the "news" braodcasts/articles.

And now it seems the Iraqi people are fed up enough with the insurgents to shoot back. Presumably it's been going on, but now the MSM seems compelled to report it:

"By EDWARD HARRIS, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants in the northern city of Mosul targeted a U.S. patrol with a roadside bomb Tuesday that killed four civilians, and Baghdad shopkeepers and residents traded gunfire with masked insurgents, killing three of them along a main thoroughfare. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&e=2&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Couple a weeks ago I had an email exchange with a Philly Inquirer oped writer who basically said all that change was fomenting all along and Bush shouldn't get credit for the elections in Iraq really, because Sistani forced them, there was a moderate Palestian leadership taht was being ignored by Israel and the US etc. It was a tiring exchange as she picked at nits while missing the reality, Without the invasion, there is no election. Without pushing Arafat out, there was no hope, w/o an election in Iraq and Afghanistan thee maybe no Cedar revolution. None of the dominoes fall w/o a push. Lefty fools.

Who really cares what a bunch of leftist so called 'intellectuals, (that herd of independent minds)really think about what's happening in Iraq and elsewhere in the middle east?
The facts are, we are leading the way and fomenting change, for the better! If this gets their anti-American panties in a bunch, so be it. This is the same group that stood and stared at their shoes while the Serbs massacred @8,000 people in Srebenica. Who didn't lift a finger to stop the slaughter in the Balkans until we forced the issue. Then complained about the Americans doing it. These were the same folks who were rooting for the USSR and totalitarian socialism, over free governments and economies.
They're less than pathetic. They're becoming irrelevant, they know it and they can, but won't do anything about it. The greater their impotence in the face of events, the more hateful their rhetoric. They bore me.

I enjoy this soooo much. Ordinarily, there is no action taken by any country that cannot be blamed on the US.

The US coughs, and that "forces" Castro to crack down on dissidents. It scratches its chin, and that "forces" OPEC to raise oil prices. It shuffles its feet, and that "forces" North Korea to develop an A-bomb.

But nascent democracy in the Arab world? Nope, nope, nothing to see here, move along.

You can't make this stuff up. So why do they do it?