Iraqis: Take The Power Back

Shia Political Rally, January 2005

Even with the hypocritical left bellowing as loud as possible that Iraqis are incapable of democracy, that the insurgency is too powerful, and that Bush's actions will amount to nothing, the Iraqis are going to show the western left what democracy looks like.

It's not whiney, self-hating and brainwashed college girls making peace signs in Seattle.

It's not Naomi Klein talking about "dialogue" with a one sided panel of Marxists.

It's not violent and masked criminals attacking police horses in Ottawa for OCAP.

It is Iraqis risking life and limb against all odds and against popular left wing 5th columnists and their ideological friends: the Baathists, al Qaeda, and the insurgents. What they need is support, not derision by NY Times columnists with a crappy love lives (Dowd), nor the patronizing of zero-credibility and idiotic "Rock Stars" (Matt Good). The left has ceded their support for democracy abroad, and at home. Their only policies are anti-americanism and ignorance.

F*** them and f*** the left: The Iraqis are going to take the power back.

Installed in our minds and attempting
To hold us back
We've got to take it back
Holes in our spirit causin' tears and fears
One-sided stories for years and years and years
I'm inferior? Who's inferior?

And that is why
We gotta take the power back
--RATM

*UPDATE* They're getting it on-democratic styles, From Mosul to the Gulf.

And just to be crystal clear:
F*** the left who said this would never happen, and the media for playing up the fears that some Sunnis might be too scared to to vote. So what? They are having elections in Iraq-for the first time. How about that for a story? Despite the guns, the bombs, the insurgency...despite of everything that has happened they are going to get this done.