Election, Ballot Box and Success.

Iraq is a little bit of a gong show, but check this out...If Afghanistan can turn it around, anybody can. If this works, there is hope for just about any country:

90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote

By STEPHEN GRAHAM, Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan - Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for landmark October elections, the United Nations (news - web sites) said Sunday, a resounding endorsement of a democratic experiment supposed to help Afghanistan (news - web sites) turn its back on years of debilitating war.
Women and ethnic minorities are strongly represented among those registered for the first-ever direct vote for president. But parts of the south risk being left behind because of stepped-up attacks on election workers and Afghan and U.S. security forces.

First tallies since the eight-month registration drive began winding down on Saturday show that 8.7 million of an estimated 9.8 million eligible voters have collected ID cards for the Oct. 9 election. Forty-one percent of those registered were women.

"The participation is amazing," U.N. spokesman David Singh said. "There was a lot of skepticism about this process at the beginning, but the targets have been fulfilled."

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"We are overwhelmed with joy at the sheer enthusiasm of the people," presidential spokesman Jawed Ludin said. "It's essentially the first important step toward a successful and legitimate election process."

While the jihadies turned away, the coalition took advantage. Now, if they started one more war to divert attention away from Iraq....just kidding.