Aw, thanks Kofi!

Has anyone else noticed the new United Nations advertisements taking credit for the recent free elections in Iraq? (pictured right) Feels a bit like waiting for the race to be over before backing the right horse, doesn't it? You see other foreign leaders (and U.S. Democrats) switching from "it'll never work" and "the elections must be postponed" and "no one will vote" and "tens of thousands will be killed on election day" to suddenly offering not only congratulations, but ways of taking credit for themselves ("I was committed to a free Iraq all along," "I've worked with the President on making this a success", etc.)

Come on. Where were you guys a month ago? Or two? Or six? Isn't it depressing that only hours earlier, world and national leaders were quite literally hoping -- sometimes vocally -- that the vote would fail, solely so Bush would look foolish? Now Bush looks like a visionary. If the strategy was to make our actions look bad, opponents of the President should have predicted zero violence and 100% voter turnout, so that the day as it went down would have been viewed as a disappointment. By setting the bar so low by predicting zero voter participation and mass death, they made Sunday seem the most significant vindication of the "Bush doctrine" since the war began.

Oh wait, I forgot -- the U.N. did it all. It's the U.N.'s success. Bush tried to mess it up but the U.N. saved the day anyway. Because Bush is stupid. Oh, and, Haliburton Haliburton Haliburton. Oh, and he never won Florida. And... and... and...