Thanks, Dianavan, for proving my point. Regardless of how successful the election is in Iraq, there will be those who question it's authinticity. It would seem to me that all one has to do is view the joy in the faces of the Iraqis who voted on television to determine that a historic event has taken place before our very eyes.

Still gloom and doom Mudcatters will decry that, in fact, the sky is falling.

DougR