repubs think one "good" day outweigh the last 2 years

Yes, the Iraqi election turned out better than expected. Yes, the Iraqis showed more courage than most Americans could possibly imagine. But, we cannot forget that most people there did not know who or what they were voting for (apparently, some believe they were voting for a president, not just the first step in many towards that goal). We're told that many were told that they would not receive food rations unless they voted.
This is far from a perfect election - what did bush call it? a staggering success or some such bs? - but it is a first step for these people and hopefully a start in the right direction.
Is this why we started a war in Iraq? Is this why we murdered thousands upon thousands and destroyed a good portion of the country? We all know that it is not, though it already looks like a number of people have forgotten that little bit or trivia and believe that the entire war was based on spreading democracy! No one is saying that this is not a good thing, but there were certainly many better ways of achieving it!

Atrios tells us that the repubs think that they think that everything good in Iraq belongs to them:

Morons:

In the latest sign that the G.O.P. is intent on politicizing everything Iraq-related, Congressional Republicans are reportedly planning to show up at tonight's State of the Union address with purple ink on their fingers to send the message that they support Iraqi voters.

As Pierce wrote:

You do not own their courage.

The people who stood in line Sunday did not stand in line to make Americans feel good about themselves.

You do not own their courage.

They did not stand in line to justify lies about Saddam and al-Qaeda, so you don't own their courage, Stephen Hayes. They did not stand in line to justify lies about weapons of mass destruction, or to justify the artful dodginess of Ahmad Chalabi, so you don't own their courage, Judith Miller. They did not stand in line to provide pretty pictures for vapid suits to fawn over, so you don't own their courage, Howard Fineman, and neither do you, Chris Matthews.

You do not own their courage.

They did not stand in line in order to justify the dereliction of a kept press. They did not stand in line to make right the wrongs born out of laziness, cowardice, and the easy acceptance of casual lying. They did not stand in line for anyone's grand designs. They did not stand in line to play pawns in anyone's great game, so you don't own their courage, you guys in the PNAC gallery.

You do not own their courage.

They did not stand in line to provide American dilettantes with easy rhetorical weapons, so you don't own their courage, Glenn Reynolds, with your cornpone McCarran act out of the bowels of a great university that deserves a helluva lot better than your sorry hide. They did not stand in line to be the instruments of tawdry vilification and triumphal hooting from bloghound commandos. They did not stand in line to become useful cudgels for cheap American political thuggery, so you
don't own their courage, Freeper Nation.

You do not own their courage.

They did not stand in line to justify a thousand mistakes that have led to more than a
thousand American bodies. They did not stand in line for the purpose of being a national hypnotic for a nation not even their own. They did not stand in line for being the last casus belli standing. They did not stand in line on behalf of people's book deals, TV spots, honorarium checks, or tinpot celebrity. They did not stand in line to be anyone's talking points.

You do not own their courage.

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Every day the actions of americans make me ill....what a sad commentary that is!

As a reminder of why we did go to war and the lies that have been told see this article.