With a 70% turnout, Iraq’s first multi-party election’s of 50 years has been a great success! Although anti-war liberals had all predicted that their would certainly be a terrible bloodbath yesterday, and although they probably would have rather it happened–to give them more opportunity for bashing the president–the elections are peacefully over!

Iraq the Model, & Free Iraqi are a couple good blogs from Iraqi’s who are in Iraq and voted, and they have some interesting posts about this. Joshua Claybourn of In the Agora has also written a interesting post on the elections.