Iraq - no going back

Once you have a taste of freedom there is no going back.

I recently posted about a Washington Post article detailing Iraqi resolve under fire.

Here is a typical comment from that WaPo article.

"I swear to God, even if they burn all the elections centers, we will still go and vote," said Ali Waili, 29, a taxi driver reached by telephone in Karbala. "We have been mistreated for a long time, we have been tortured for a long time."

Now, even The New York Times is forced to acknowledge Iraqi courage and resolve.

Threatened, attacked, kidnapped and killed, Iraq's election workers are finding that being at the forefront of the electoral process means surviving the frontlines of an insurgency determined to stop it.

Things are so bad that one of the officials from the Independent Electoral Commission, Adil al-Lami, compared the workers to a clandestine political movement. "They function like an underground," he said in an interview.

This particular worker says he does it to serve his country. "There are a lot of people around the world who also would fight for what I do," he said after finishing his day recently at the election commission. "I believe in democracy."

This is why bin Laden, Zarqawi and all the mad mullahs fear Democracy, it empowers the populace and there is no going back.
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