And it appears, Kath, that we were right and our good friends at CNN were wrong. Sabotaging the electrical power last night was not a brilliant strategic victory for the “insurgents,” it didn’t demonstrate their astonishing “sophistication,” it didn’t undermine the integrity of the Iraqi government, it didn’t keep people from going to the polls – at considerable risk to their very lives.

All that happened was that some disgruntled vandals knocked out the lights and air conditioners for a few hours. That may impress the MSM but most Iraqis are smarter than that.

BTW, continuing the ridiculous meme that Iraq was a feminist beacon of hope under Saddam Hussein, the Wash Post had a caption on p. 1 today reading: “Many [Iraqi] women say that their lives have deteriorated since the US -led invasion and they anticipate no improvement if the charter is approved.”

And a p. 1 story in the WP reports that President Jalal Talabani promised a true coalition government “if Sunni Arabs turned away from their two-year-old insurrection and joined in the political process.” So now it’s “their” insurrection – a Sunni insurrection, not an insurrection by Saddamites, by Baathists, by the remnants of the former ruling class?

If there had been an MSM like today’s after the U.S. Civil War, imagine how they’d have covered the “insurrection” of the Ku Klux Klan. “Wolf, there’s been another lynching down here but when you consider the services that got knocked out in Atlanta after Gen. Sherman came through … well, people are obviously disappointed and angry and I think this puts the Union’s credibility on the line again.”