If Only...

John Nichols is correct when he says: "If Sunday's elections in Iraq were both legitimate and consequential, if they selected a government that is representative of the Iraqi people, and if that government has the authority to set the course for what should be a sovereign country, then one of its first acts would by any reasonable calculus be to ask the United States to establish a timetable for the rapid withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraqi soil. After all, unless President Bush has come up with new definitions for words such as 'freedom' and 'democracy,' it would seem that such an action would be in entirely the spirit of his inaugural address."

However, since we are living in Orwellian Times, what we know to be true is no longer and vis versa.

Iraq: Images vs. Reality