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The Beeb notes "courage and euphoria"...

The Grey Lady calls it " a day of civic passion"...

These news organizations will probably respin the story in, say, a week or so, but right now the videos of long lines, dancing voters, and grandmothers proudly showing their purple fingers make the election hard to spin...

As Canadian Mark Steyn says:

AND so the "looming Iraqi election fiasco" joins "the brutal Afghan winter" and "the brutal Iraqi summer" and "the seething Arab street" and all the other junk in the overflowing trash can of post-9/11 Western media fictions. The sight of millions of brave voters emerging from polling stations holding high their purple dye-stained fingers was so inspiring that, from America's Democratic Party to European protest rallies, opponents of the war waited, oh, all of three minutes before flipping the Iraqis their own fingers, undyed...
This weekend's election was a rebuke to the parochial condescension of the West's elites.

as the saying go, read the whole thing...