Twisted Democracy

Opposition expects to do badly in the elections, so withdraws, claiming fraud. And media swallows it. (via TPMCafe).

Iraq Irony

It is a better Iraq, just don't go there. The Hindu:

CAN THERE be a greater irony than that a country after being "liberated" amid such hype and supposedly on the road to democracy should be seen by its own "liberators" to have become so dangerous that they are forced to warn their citizens not to visit it?

Yet, this is what the British Government has done after a spate of kidnappings and killings of its nationals in Iraq. Short of imposing an outright ban on travel to Iraq, the Government has made plain that it does not want Britons to go there — with the unstated subtext that if they do they would be doing it at their own risk.