The following is from The Daily Show’s Stephen Colbert on the Iraqi Election:

A high turnout less than fifty dead, doesn’t get any better than this…
The birth of a Democracy is like any birth, it’s not for the faint-hearted. You can’t let the panic and the hot stink of fear that fills the room distract you from the goal… pushing that thing out.
Lady Liberty may curse at you and tell you that she hates you and her eyes may go wild like a mindless animal but you stay the course. And when the still soft head of representative government emerges from the draconian stained voting both like some wet hairless rat you’ll be able to look at it and say “That’s mine, I maid that.” Even if it clearly looks Asian because at that point you can convince yourself of anything.