"A New Birth" On Constitution Day

Austin Bay has an excellent round-up of reports from Iraq.

Turnout was 61% with Sunnis voting in surprisingly high numbers. Though this Sunni turnout could make the result close, it's largely expected that Iraq's new Constitution will be ratified. Final vote count should come in a couple of days.

Roger L. Simon provides some important perspective:

Because the mainstream media has done its best to hypnotize the public into believing the "failure" of the American democracy project in Iraq, it is worth comparing some dates:

Operation Iraqi Freedom - began March 19, 2003
Election to ratify constitution for a democratic Iraq - October 14, 2005

That's two years and seven months.

US Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
Completion of US Constitution - September 17, 1787 (took effect 1789)

That's eleven years and two months. (I could have begun with the Boston Tea Party which would have added another three years.)

Anybody want to take a bet about how history will regard Operation Iraqi Freedom? No wonder the New York Times is singing a (relatively) different tune this morning.

Despite all the doom and gloom pushed by the MSM and the naysayers, the success of these small but deliberate steps toward democratizing Iraq - and the region - are mighty blows against the terrorists. What must be going through Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's mind at this point? This is his worst nightmare.

h/t: Michelle Malkin

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