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02/02/2005 Entry: "Iraq is now the home of the brave – and soon the free"

STEYN ON IRAQ'S ELECTION: Mark Steyn, as usual, has a great take on Iraq's election and a protest in Spain condemning it.

But nevertheless there they were, prosperous, well-dressed Spaniards waving placards showing US missiles and dollar bills going into the ballot box and noisily objecting to the fraud of a so-called election held under American occupation.

Given the fact that the voters of Baghdad and Basra and Kirkuk showed the cojones the Spaniards failed to last March, you'd think those protesters would have been less careless about reminding us that the terrorists got a much better election result out of the Spanish electorate than they did from the Iraqis.

Read on.