We Wonder

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It is an exciting time in Iraq nowadays, not to mention that Iraqi elections will take place, more or less, on Sunday. And we are all looking forward to those elections! We wonder. We wonder how a terrorized population which does not know the identity of most of the candidates nor the location of most of the polling places nor the nature of most of the political questions to be addressed by the said 'election' can reasonably 'vote!' We wonder.

And yet in spite of all the uncertainty - perhaps because of it - we understand that here is the Definitive Test of the 'Bush Policy of Preemption.' Will the Iraqis let Bush down? We wonder, and we are immensely interested in the answer (Being gassed here. I walked into the LR to see that the McLaughlin Group was on, being recorded by TIVO).

The last note refers to the juxtaposition between abortion and miscarriage. In both cases the fetus is destroyed. Yet our moral senses tell us that there is a fundamental difference which separates those two cases. I intend to 'investigate' (drunk as I am) the relationship.