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The Iraqi election is a week away. Here's the blog to log onto for the next week, and probably ongoing thereafter, Friends of Democracy, Iraqi Election News (with a major hat tip to Instupudit).

Included in Friends of Democracy's current posts is this, which, while we may not like the term "invaders" much, makes it clear how important this election is to the safe return of our troops.

At Al Watan Free Domocracy Party (list no. 226), we met Mr. Haitham Al-Husseini candidate of the list, who said The elections are the only exit for getting rid of the invaders, in spite the election process needs a safe environment and the situation is not ideal for such kind of process but that doesn't mean that the elections is another solution if we wanted to get out of this crises, and if we don't want to give terrorism any chance to destroy the election process and keep Iraq unstable then we have to go on with it without any delay." Mr. Hussein also added that the elections will solve all the problems we are suffering from now through an elected government by the Iraqi people, this government will help in making the situation more stable, consequently it will then limit the invaders troops motion inside our country and we also will be able to end all the killings done by those terrorists.

He sees them as terrorists, not insurgents. On that score, I like his terminology.