As we said, it will be live. Both on the television and the web.

So people anywhere can watch.

Shameless plug: If anyone reading is in the London/Corbin area, I will be reporting the Whitley County results on Choice 101.9 FM Tuesday night.

An even more powerful statement from 3 veterans on the real reason for the short term stability in Iraq:

The following is an excerpt from an article by Colin H. Kahl on the Anbar Awakening in July/August Foreign Affairs

-U.S. forces had to convince the Sunnis that they were not occupiers-that is, that they did not intend to stay forever. Here, growing opposition to the war in the United States and the Democratic takeover of both houses of Congress in the November 2006 elections were critical. Major General John Allen, the Marine Corps officer responsible for tribal engagement in Anbar in 2007, recently told me that among Sunni leaders, the Democratic victory and the rising pro-withdrawal sentiment “did not go unnoticed… They talked about it all the time.” According to Allen, the marines, from top to bottom reinforced the message sent by the Democratic takeover by saying, “We are leaving… We don’t know when we are leaving, but we don’t have much time, so you [the Anbaris] better get after this.”

As a result, U.S. forces came to be seen as less of a threat than either AQI (al Qaeda in Iraq) or the Shiite militias-and the risk U.S. forces would leave pushed the Sunnis to cut a deal to protect their interests while they still could.

As Major Niel Smith, the operations officer at the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center, and Colonel Sean Macfarland, the commander of U.S. forces in Ramadi during the pivotal period of the Awakening, wrote recently in Military Review, “A growing concern that the U.S. would leave the Sunnis defenseless against Al-Qaeda and Iranian-supported militias made these younger [tribal] leaders [who led the Awakening] open to our overtures.”

In short, contrary to the Bush administration’s claims, the Awakening began before the surge and was driven in part by Democratic pressure to withdraw.

Colin H Kahl is an Assistant Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.

-Vote Democratic, vote for Obama!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8

And when are Republicans going to get over this bullshit of “liberal” this and “liberal” that?

See? Goes both ways.