The New Sunni Jihad: 'A Time for Politics'

"To Vote, by All Means

Abu Theeb's tribe has a reputation for kidnappings and executions, and election officials declined to make the trip from Baghdad to his village to operate a polling station there. Instead, an elderly local sheik, deputized by Abu Theeb and village leaders as election monitor, settled onto a wooden bench in the classroom polling center.

Men of the village trickled in. Guerrillas soon realized that the women of this deeply conservative Tigris River hamlet were not ready to leave their homes to cast ballots. So each man who came with his identity card received a stack of ballots to take back to his family."
WaPo

H/T Iraq Bloggers Central

I think this guy is reaching out to us. I think he's trying to tell us something? Iraq sure has plenty of characters, their going to make fine politicians one day. We better be ready.