Tim Blair, sycophant, fool, d*ckhead

As Ken Parish points out in a Troppo Armadillo post, sycophants to power such as that giant-brained Tim Blair are so keen to call the recent (recent... ) Iraqi elections a success, they call it before anybody could possibly know.

Insurgency? Gone! Iraq held an election don't ya know?

U.S. Bombing raids? Gone! Election!

Lack of water/food/medicine? Gone! Why? Election, of course.

It will be up to those who care enough to actually consider reality, to bring the average punter back from the perception as described by the sycophants.

Yeah, thanks Blair, you f*ckin' idiot.

Pepe Escobar writes nothing new, we've all read this sort of stuff in the past couple of years, its worth another read now, post election;

If the Sunni resistance is really 200,000-strong, as Iraq's chief spook has announced, it is the resistance that will have the last word. In a perverse twist of "reaping what you sow", American abuses in Iraq have reaped so such anger that nobody wants them to leave - even moderate Sunnis, because everyone fears total chaos. The Americans created the conditions for the emergence of a hardcore resistance. They created the conditions for the emergence of suicide bombers. And they created the conditions for staying: after all, now they need to engage in counterinsurgency. As the Iraqi Islamic Party, the biggest Sunni party puts it, even the resistance does not want the Americans to leave. What moderate Sunnis want to see is a detailed plan on the table, with fixed dates.

Don't read it, you don't want to know.

Oh yeah, 'the left' are to blame for any failures in Iraq from this point.