I have been engaging in blogging dialogue with the citizen blogger panelist who spoke at the Freedom Forum in Salt Lake City last week. I’m finding it kind of fun and a good way to practice my “listening” skills and a chance for me to articulate things on my mind in a different way.
Ken Bingham’s post today,
A New Hope For The Iraqi People!, starts off by insinuating that protestors of the U.S. Occupation in this country were disappointed in the smooth election and little violence yesterday. He also claims that Iraqi’s are now “free” and that the U.S. has planted the “seeds” of democracy. His comment section allowed me to make some portion of my comments I wanted to make, but wouldn’t allow me to provide links to sources, so here is my whole response to his post:
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Ken:
I take exception to the first part of your sentence, “Much to the chagrin of some in the United States, insurgence and terrorists in Iraq, the vote for a new Constitution went smoothly and with little violence in Iraq today.”
You are insinuating that people in the U.S. who oppose a U.S. occupation of Iraq, all of whom support the concept of democracy, advocate a violent voting experience for the people of that country. That could not be further from the truth. Most people want a non-violent voting experience. It’s too bad that voting experiences in our own country do not even set that example.
Also, I would like to point out that the people of Iraq are not free. They are under occupation.
If they Iraqi people are indeed “free”, why are many of the headlines touting “U.S. victory”? I thought this was supposed to be an Iraqi “victory”, yet it is not being billed that way.
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