Say it loud and clear: I am a Sunni, I am an Iraqi and I voted

Posted on January 30, 2005 by Sappho

Today I can walk tall, I can say I am Iraqi with a proud not only because I voted but also I fought against ter­ror­ist with my vot­ing ballot

I stepped out the car, the vot­ing cen­ter was on the other side of the street, young Iraqi teenagers were there giv­ing every Iraqi a can­dle and say­ing this is Iraq.

After the ID check­ing in the entrance and the metal detec­tors after that secu­rity shows me the vot­ing room, the room was divided into small booths by par­ti­tions and in the mid­dle of the room there were floors, on one cor­ner there was an infor­ma­tion table (if any­body need infor­ma­tion or have a question).

Entered on the booths and peo­ple checked my name and I col­ored my fin­ger with this great vot­ing color and I got my bal­lot which was very big (in the size of a poster) all I had to do is to put a sign beside my cho­sen party, to be hon­est I was very slow when putting the sign because I wanted to enjoy the moment, putting the bal­lot in the box was the most dif­fi­cult emo­tional time, when I fin­ished Iraqis (which I don�t know) came to con­grat­u­lat­ing me and shak­ing my hands.

I am wait­ing for the pic­tures to be sent to me by Email because the dig. Cam­era is not mine

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42 Responses to Say it loud and clear: I am a Sunni, I am an Iraqi and I voted

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  10. Ana says:
    January 30, 2005 at 21:27

    Con­grat­u­la­tions. The bless­ings of democ­racy, peace, and pros­per­ity be upon you and your country.

  11. Zonie says:
    January 30, 2005 at 21:36

    God bless you and con­grat­u­la­tions on your new democ­racy. Fight to keep it!

  12. Greg says:
    January 30, 2005 at 22:36

    Con­grat­u­la­tions! You were very brave in putting fears aside and doing your given RIGHT to vote for who YOU want!

  13. Christy says:
    January 30, 2005 at 22:55

    I am so proud of all of you, of your brav­ery, of your sac­ri­fices and I pray for the courage that you will need to con­tinue on this road you have forged. I thank God for our sol­diers who gave their lives for this won­der­ful moment. God bless you all!!!

  14. Shawn says:
    January 30, 2005 at 22:56

    Con­grat­u­la­tions we in Amer­ica are behind you con­trary to what reports may say. Con­tinue to push for free­dom and you will be blessed!

  16. reed youmans says:
    January 30, 2005 at 23:40

    Con­grat­u­la­tions, Give Zar­qarwi the finger!!

    Reed

  17. Autumn says:
    January 31, 2005 at 00:12

    What I have seen of the Iraqi peo­ple today — not only the courage to go to the polls, but the smiles, the smiles in the face of threat of life and limb — Happy war­riors are the best!!! To defy by not only turn­ing out to vote in greater per­cent­ages than we Amer­i­cans who some­times take our priv­i­lage to vote for granted, but, to smile along the way is so beau­ti­ful. I feel a true affin­ity for the Iraqis I saw today and a love of their hearts and souls. I can­not for the day, and it will come, that I travel to Iraq with my fam­ily to visit the great land that is to come. I am a proud Amer­i­can today that feels a sis­ter­hood with the young democ­racy a world away. God bless the courage and hope of the Iraqi people!

  18. joann king says:
    January 31, 2005 at 00:33

    This is a joy­ous day for you. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!! We are so very happy for you and proud of you. This is the day of your country’s “rebirth”. Happy First Demo­c­ra­tic Birth­day Iraqi”.

  19. Mike Openshaw says:
    January 31, 2005 at 00:57

    The brav­ery of the Iraqi peo­ple, espe­cially the vot­ing Sun­nis like your­self, hum­bles me. I am not sure, given the envi­ron­ment you have faced, whether my Amer­i­can neigh­bors would turn out int the vast num­ber you did. Thank you for val­i­dat­ing the blood sac­ri­fices made by the coura­geous Iraqi and Coali­tion secu­rity forces,

  20. glen says:
    January 31, 2005 at 01:06

    Thanks for your words.
    Yes­ter­day, I received a phone call from my son who said “Dad, I’m home”. It was so wel­come because he has been a Marine in Iraq for the past 7 months. The first ques­tion he asked me was if the vot­ing had started yet. He was in the very cen­ter of the tough fight­ing in Fal­lu­jah and his time in Iraq has not been pleas­ant, but he sounded as excited about the vot­ing as you must have been. Con­grat­u­la­tions from the dad of a Marine and from, I’m sure, the Marine who was speak­ing to me only hours ago.…

  21. Connie says:
    January 31, 2005 at 02:38

    I con­grat­u­late the Iraqi peo­ple on their courage. We will keep you in our prayers. It is our hope that the Iraqi peo­ple some­day will have free­doms and pros­per­ity equal to ours.

  22. Helen says:
    January 31, 2005 at 02:52

    Con­gradu­la­tions more than any­thing you are aproud Iraqi who believes in the pos­si­bil­ity of your coun­try and your cit­i­zen­ship in it.
    Vot­ing has never been just a priv­i­lege but the duty of every cit­i­zen.
    Never for­get this and your coun­try will be as free as you wished for.

  23. Eric says:
    January 31, 2005 at 03:04

    Con­grat­u­la­tions.

    I am more con­fi­dent today than yes­ter­day that the Iraqi peo­ple will suc­ceed. God bless the Iraqi peo­ple, and god bless their allies and friends.

    Stay strong, lady­bird. In your hands are the fate of a grow­ing nation, the future of a great civ­i­liza­tion, and an ambi­tious peo­ple.

  24. Michael says:
    January 31, 2005 at 03:56

    Years ago the French (yes believe it or not) came to the res­cue of a small nation try­ing to trow off the reign of a ruler­ship that was bru­tal at times and did every­thing to stop free­dom. While the French have for­got­ten the impor­tance of this, most in the US have not. We took no joy in com­ing to Iraq but if the end result is a free Iraq, one we can call firend for many years then the sac­ri­fice in blood will be worth it. The sac­ri­fice is high, oh so high, but the end result is also tremen­dous. I pray for your safety and wis­dom in the tough deci­sions ahead. It appears the mil­i­tants would sen­tence me to death for my sen­ti­ments. No God, where it be the God of Abra­ham or any­one else would ever con­done the killing of inno­cents. I also notice it is always the young who are the sui­cide bombers. Why don’t the lead­ers lead by exam­ple? We all know the answer to that.

    All my best,

    Michael
    Alabama, USA

  25. Neal says:
    January 31, 2005 at 05:28

    Obvi­ously God wanted the Iraqis to vote.

  26. Vince says:
    January 31, 2005 at 05:36

    From one amer­i­can to an Iraqi — con­gradu­la­tions on your future, and most of all, your free­dom. May God bless you all.

  27. Monica-Philadelphia says:
    January 31, 2005 at 06:06

    Con­grat­u­la­tions and thank you for wear­ing the blue ‘badge of courage’. We in Amer­ica stand in awe of the Iraqi peo­ple who voted for free­dom today. Your courage has hon­ored the peo­ple who have given their very lives — Coali­tion AND Iraqi — to get us here today. God Bless you and God Bless a free Iraq!!!

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  29. Curt says:
    January 31, 2005 at 06:25

    Years from now Iraqis will remem­ber heroes from these days. There will be parades and hon­ors remem­ber­ing those gen­er­als and lead­ers who brought free­dom to Iraq.

    Today every Iraqi who voted is a hero — as much as any gen­eral. You are bring­ing free­dom to Iraq. Every man and woman who voted has said that ter­ror and fear will not be per­mit­ted to stand. Be proud — your courage hum­bles me.

    May God bless you and your nation.

  30. Ken-Washingotn DC says:
    January 31, 2005 at 06:31

    I am by no means a Bush sup­porter and I have had grave doubts about the Amer­i­can led war in Iraq, but I can­not be hap­pier that you know the free­dom to be a part of your own des­tiny that I know of here in Amer­ica. In a spirit only meant to be sup­port­ive, we prayed for you and your coun­try in our church today — for your free­dom, your hap­pi­ness, your future, and your peace. My heart is with you on this day when true his­toric change is hap­pen­ing. I clearly under­stand the his­tor­i­cal impor­tance of this day and give thanks! Peace to you my broth­ers and sis­ters. You deserve it!

  31. loupgarou says:
    January 31, 2005 at 11:10

    con­grat­u­la­tions on your chance to vote and decide the future of your country.

    I’m from sin­ga­pore, for a democ­racy, I haven’t even got a chance to vote yet (past 2 gen­eral elec­tions already.. walkovers, elec­toral bound­aries and all that..)

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  33. Marsha Doby says:
    January 31, 2005 at 18:13

    I am cry­ing with Joy for all the Iraqi peo­ple and may God be with you in your strug­gle ahead.

  34. Terry Stalker says:
    January 31, 2005 at 19:16

    I am so grate­ful to you and your fel­low coun­try men, I know words. I am hum­bled by your brav­ery and your faith. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    Terry Stalker
    Anchor­age Alaska

  35. Peter Ramsey says:
    January 31, 2005 at 23:44

    I honor your courage and your faith. Amer­ica has noth­ing to teach Iraq about democ­racy. Maybe you have some­thing to teach us.

  36. Drae says:
    February 2, 2005 at 04:08

    Awe­some. Thanks. Con­grat­u­la­tions. I linked to your post.
    Life More Abun­dant: The Elec­tions — In the Words of Iraq

  37. Mike P says:
    February 14, 2005 at 22:08

    It is a great thing in todays day and age that some­thing pos­i­tive can come from some­thing neg­a­tive. It is now time for Iraqis to take con­trol of thier own future and be the first build­ing block of a new era of coun­tries that put thier peo­ple over thier pol­i­tics. The U.S must now let the peo­ple deter­mine thier own fate. This must be done pri­mar­ily to show the world that the U.S is gen­uine about just want­ing to free the peo­ple. If they do prove to be honourable(even though thier for­eign pol­icy up until now has been self­ish and destruc­tive), the world can hold out hope that we all may live with love for each other, the way God meant it to be.

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