8 Million Vote In Iraq

Bloomberg reports that as many as 8 million voted in Iraq's election:

"The streets of Baghdad were not soaked with blood" said Farid Ayar, spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, at a Baghdad news conference broadcast by Cable News Network as polls closed. The commission said turnout was about 60 percent, down from an earlier estimate of 72 percent.

This can only be considered a great victory over terrorist Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi and all the other evil doers who tried to scare Iraqis into not voting. This is great news for our "forward strategy of freedom."