Thursday, March 04, 2010

What Did We Win in Iraq?

P-Mac runs a gripping story today.

...Lying in the road is a young Iraqi woman. I run over to help. She’s caught a round just below her temple. Her stunning beauty has been ruined forever.

“She cries, ‘Paper! Paper’ over and over until the ambulance arrives to take her away. An old lady emerges from the schoolhouse-turned voting site, sheets of blue paper in hand. She gives one to the wounded girl, who clutches it to her like a prized possession even as the ambulance carries her away.

Read the rest here.

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