News from Iraq, re:Election

     From the WSJ (no registration required) news of good and bad.  The author was the one who had their personal e-mail of the tragedies in Iraq blasted over the net, iirc Farnaz Fassihi.  On the bad side

What's happening in the Sunni enclaves of Adhamiya and Ammariya, where the residents are notoriously anti-American and sympathetic to insurgents? "None of the polling stations have opened here. The streets are desolate," said my friend, Ziad, from his home in Adhamiya around 3 p.m. "We haven't left the house."

and more good news.