The US will rue the day it imposed this "gunpoint democracy" (as the San Francisco Chronicle's editor called it today) upon the Iraqi and Afghani people.

Someone above said that these elections were preferable to civil war. I would suggest this smoke and mirrors election is taking place in the throes of a civil war that has been raging for months.

Those of you who favor "spreading freedom" at the point of a gun, are fools, and dangerous ones at that.

So what will you say when a Shiite majority is elected, because the Sunnis boycotted the election, the new leadership tells the US to get out, and forms a cozy new relationship with Iran, and then forms a fundamentalist Muslim regional security coalition with Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria?