NPR Manages to Find a Downside to the Iraqi Election
Went out in the car for a little drive, thought I'd see what NPR's take was on the Iraqi elections. Surprisingly, they were pretty upbeat, at least in the news segment, stressing the high turnout (while warning that it was lower in some parts of the country). They had a few Iraqis on talking about their experience voting, mostly positive (although they did manage to focus on one poor woman who'd walked to two different polling stations to be told she wasn't on the list). But incredibly, they included an interview clip from a man who preferred the prior elections when Saddam was the only candidate, who griped about how the elections weren't legitimate because Hussein wasn't on the ballot.
