Well, that’s what Ann Coulter wants to know. She’s very envious about her being excluded from the arrest-a-thon that’s happened to most conservatives, and she wants to be in on the loop, as she said in her latest column. One of the best paragraphs of said column is this one:

I’ve done a lot for my country. I think I deserve to be indicted, too. How am I supposed to show my face around Washington if I haven’t been “frog-marched” out of my office by some liberal D.A. looking to move to D.C. for the next Democratic administration? What’s a girl have to do to become a “person of interest” around here? Mr. Krischer, where do I go to get rid of my reputation?

Where indeed?!

However, that’s far less important than the Iraqi election that have been taking place over the last few days. The turnout, according to this report, was over 70 percent. That’s right. 11 million out of 15 million registered voters came out to dip their fingers in purple ink yesterday. Lazy, spoiled Americans…here these people are in threat of being shot in the back while they wait in line for hours to vote, and Americans won’t go vote for the stupidest excuses…like it’s raining or something. We could learn a few things from these people, or we could just be allowed to look at our own history and not brush it off as a collection of dates. coughs in the direction of public schools

The Shiites, of course, are expected to take the majority of the seats in the 275-member parliament, but the Sunni’s are expected to gain enough seats to become a thorn in the sides of the Shiites and the Kurds.

A successful election followed by an effective, broad-based government would also give the Bush administration a significant victory in its campaign to spread democracy through the Middle East. But many Shiite politicians have little interest in concessions to Sunnis on their key demands, including a greater share of power and allowing a role for Saddam loyalists in public life.

As a result, negotiations to create a new government – including a prime minister – could drag on for weeks just as they did following January’s election, when many Sunnis stayed away from the polls because of threats of violence or to honor boycott calls. Another prolonged political struggle might worsen sectarian tensions.

Well, good for the Shiites. Though I still view these elections with caution and suspicion, as they progress it becomes more and more clear to me that Iraqis, and pretty much all Muslim people in general, are like everybody else. It’s something we seem to forget, viewing the people in the Middle-East and elsewhere in the light of their strange culture, history, and religion. (No offense to anyone meant) They have all the same desires, vices, and virtues that we do. It seems to me that Muslims are capable of republicanism and ruling themselves, but we’ll have to wait and see.

A very good day in Iraqi history, bolstered by the surprising lack of violence from the terrorists in the face of the election. Note that last line in the column.

But before we go, here’s a friendly liberal reminder not to be positive about these elections: We are losing in Iraq. Remember that. Loooooooooooosing. We’re getting out butts kicked. We need to out of there and ‘strategically redeploy’ our troops. Now.

Have a good day. Remember to send to Ann Coulter all the manners of getting arrested you can find. wink