Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Did you ever think there'd be a Kurdish president in Iraq?

Certainly wouldn't have happened in the previous regime

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The Iraqi parliament chose Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the country's new interim president Wednesday, reaching out to a long-repressed minority and bringing the country closer to its first democratically elected government in 50 years.
Isn't democracy grand? Saddam was trying to eradicate them, now one is Iraq's president.

Who knew?

UPDATE: Does having Saddam watch Iraq elect a Kurdish president qualify as cruel and unusual punishment?