Iraqi blog and other rambles

Was reading the news in yahoo.com, read one of the mandatory iraq news (mandatory meaning there seems to be one everyday). Found a link to this site. Take a look at it, tt's much better than my blog :)

Girl Blog from Iraq

Talking of Iraq. The US presidential debate was about 4 days ago. One of the most divisive factors in the US presidential race is the stance on Iraq. Was there WMD (well I guess that question isn't being debated as much)? Was there a need to attack Iraq? Was the war justified? And so on and so on.

How divisive are the elections? If you care to look at the content of the yahoo message board, you'll find republicans and democrats, conservatives and liberal, right wing and left wing bashing each other. Each side thinks the other side are stupid. There are rarely intelligent comments on the yahoo boards, so if you want to waste some time looking at stupidity, read it.

This is in stark contrast with Indonesia. There are no divisive issues in Indonesia. All the candidates know they need to get rid of corruption, re-ignite the economy, and so on. Those rethoric about what's needed are always given to the public. The good news is that the candidates understand the problem.. the bad news none of them has really good solutions. So in a campaign, after they sell out the same rhethoric... they start singing to woo the public. Everybody's happy... Don't you just love Indonesian politics?