Iraq Elections Draw Near

Wait a minute, I thought that elections weren't possible in Iraq. I mean, according to the main stream media (MSM) the people are out in the streets rioting against us evil Americans and disorder is everywhere.

I guess headlines like this are just lies spread by...well I have no idea, but I guess the MSM's do.
Wait another minute...I thought Reuters was one of the mainstreamers who consistently ignored all the good going on in Iraq in order to cover the latest terrorist bombing, but look what they said on Sunday:

FALLUJA/RAMADI Iraq (Reuters) -
Saddam Hussein loyalists who violently opposed January elections have made an about-face as Thursday's polls near, urging fellow Sunni Arabs to vote and warning al Qaeda militants not to attack.
In a move unthinkable in the bloody run-up to the last election, guerrillas in the western insurgent heartland of Anbar province say they are even prepared to protect voting stations from fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Graffiti calling for holy war is now hard to find.
Instead, election campaign posters dominate buildings in the rebel strongholds of Ramadi and nearby Falluja, where Sunnis staged a boycott or were too scared to vote last time around.
"We want to see a nationalist government that will have a balance of interests. So our Sunni brothers will be safe when they vote," said Falluja resident Ali Mahmoud, a former army officer and rocket specialist under Saddam's Baath party.
"Sunnis should vote to make political gains. We have sent leaflets telling al Qaeda that they will face us if they attack voters."
The shift is encouraging for Washington, which hopes to draw Sunni Arabs into peaceful politics in order to defuse the insurgency.
The Baathist warning to al Qaeda raises the possibility of a wider rift between secular Saddam loyalists and fundamentalist militants, who have been cooperating in their efforts to drive out U.S. forces.

Read the rest from Reuters here.

Fox News reports:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Candidates in Iraq's upcoming election stopped campaigning Wednesday, a day before the polls open, to give the country's 15 million voters time to reflect before deciding who they would like to lead their country for the next four years.
Tightened security measures that went into effect earlier this week include instituting a traffic ban in Baghdad, closing the country's borders and airports, as well as extending a nighttime curfew.
Despite the security measures, there were scattered attacks across the country. In Mosul, a roadside bomb exploded as a police patrol passed, killing two officers and wounding four others, a hospital official said. And near Fallujah, police said gunmen shot up four polling stations; there were no reports of casualties.
In Ramadi, Marines conducting security sweeps detected a large improvised explosive device, or IED, placed at an intersection, FOX News has learned. The device was set off in a controlled explosion.
President Jalal Talabani described the elections as "a national celebration, a day of the national unity and of victory over the terrorists and those who oppose our march toward democracy."
He said a good turnout would give the new government the legitimacy it needs to deflate the insurgency and allow it to build up Iraq's armed forces to the point where foreign troops could begin withdrawing.

Read the rest from Fox News here.

I guess that when the facts become blatant enough, even the MSM and democrats have to admit that things are not exactly as they have been telling us. Hummm...I wonder what else they've been lying to us about all these years?