Re: Doonesbury Links Oct10 & 11

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:13:30 -0400

Mason A. Clark wrote:

> I asked a 28-year-old engineer if he and his family would participate in
> the Iraqi elections since it was the first time Iraqis could to some degree
> elect a leadership. His response summed it all: "Go and vote and risk being
> blown into pieces or followed by the insurgents and murdered for cooperating
> with the Americans? For what? To practice democracy? Are you joking?"

They did it in Afghanistan.

Bob Kolker